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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: keyboard dead after rebuilding kernel
Date: 5 Oct 1996 20:16:11 GMT
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Daniel Wiesmann <danielw@alfa.its.berkeley.edu> wrote:

> I recently had to rebuild my kernel to allow FreeBSD to find my PS/2
> mouse, as I was planning to run X. I followed the instructions as well
> as I could, but now, somehow, my keyboard is dead.

Are you sure your mouse is really a PS/2 (aka. `keyboard') mouse?
I've often seen plain serial mice being declared as `PS/2'.

It's a well-known bogosity that a kernel with a configured psm driver
but no PS/2 mouse connected might jam the keyboard driver.  (Both
drivers plug into the same controller.)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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