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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? |