*BSD News Article 79756


Return to BSD News archive

Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!news.uoregon.edu!hunter.premier.net!feed1.news.erols.com!news1.erols.com!news
From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD and X and Ps/2 mouse
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 1996 09:07:39 +0000
Organization: Erol's Internet Services
Lines: 21
Message-ID: <325230DA.318D@www.play-hookey.com>
References: <32516415.4E8F@alfa.its.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; U)

Daniel Wiesmann wrote:
> 
> I have finished installing FreeBSD 2.1, but I can't run X because the
> system can't find my Ps/2 mouse.  I looked in the XF86Config file, and
> changed the Device and Protocol to "PS/2" and "/dev/psm0", but when the
> system boots, it does not look for any psm0 device.  When I boot with
> the "-c" (configure) and try to "enable psm0", it tells me that psm0
> does not exist. I heard something about having to "reconfigure the
> kernel".  What's that? How do I do it? Will anybody get hurt?
> 
> Thanks for all the help...
> 
RT Handbook -- there's a *lot* of info on reconfiguring the kernel and
recompiling. Also, if you can't find what you need in GENERIC you should
check out LINT. That should get you going.
-- 
Ken

Are you interested in   |
byte-sized education    |   http://www.play-hookey.com
over the Internet?      |