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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!newspump.sol.net!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uchinews!ncar!newshost.lanl.gov!retro!hlu From: hlu@retro.lanl.gov (Henry Lu) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: More on psm mouse and 2.1.5 Date: 11 Oct 1996 17:42:05 GMT Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory Lines: 50 Message-ID: <53m0td$h07@newshost.lanl.gov> References: <53drv0$j93@newshost.lanl.gov> <j4jzq1xweih.fsf@zorak.gsfc.nasa.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: retro.lanl.gov X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Mark Cornick (mcornick@zorak.gsfc.nasa.gov) wrote: : >>>>> "Charlie" == Charlie Sorsby <crs@lanl.gov> writes: : Charlie> I had been running 2.1.0 but, due to a problem, the : Charlie> vendor of my system sent a replacement disk with 2.1.5 : Charlie> installed. Now dmesg says this about psm: : Charlie> psm0: disabled, not probed. : Charlie> And, of course, when I try to run X, it complains about : Charlie> the mouse not being configured or something like that. : Charlie> It (dmesg) used to say: : Charlie> psm0 at 0x60-0x63 irq 12 on motherboard : Charlie> I'm not familiar enough with how this all works to figure : Charlie> out what's going on so I will be very grateful for any : Charlie> help. : I just spent the weekend dealing with this stuff so maybe my : experiences will be helpful... : In 2.1.5-release, the GENERIC config file has psm0 disabled; you need : to remove "disable" from the psm0 line in the config file and remake : the kernel to get it to work. The "disabled, not probed" message would : be symptomatic of this. : Theoretically, that should do it. Even after I did that, the PS2 mouse : port on my motherboard wouldn't show up. The mailing list archives : suggested that maybe there are some problems with the probe code in : the psm driver. I finally got it to work by commenting the probe code : entirely and just making it return true every time; this is obviously : not the most portable and/or desireable solution, but I only run : FreeBSD on this one machine. (Let's hear it for free source code, : ladies and gents...) The file you would want to look at is : /usr/src/sys/i386/isa/psm.c, I believe. : -- : Mark Cornick, UNIX Systems Engineer : Hughes STX / NASA Goddard Space Flight Center : LTP Computing Facility, Code 922 : mark.cornick@gsfc.nasa.gov / (301) 286-1486 I got same problem, after recompile kernel, " ps/2 mouse not found at ..." I will try out your solution of commenting out probe code entirely. Hope this time I will have some luck. Henry H Lu