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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: XFree86 woes on HP Vectra
Date: 15 Oct 1996 22:04:43 GMT
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stanb@netcom.com (Stan Brown) wrote:

> 	At this point I can start X without crashing my machine. 
> Unfortunatley the mouse doesn't *work* , it just doesn't crash the
> machine. Yes I changed the link to /dev/mouse to what I think is the
> correct device for a PS/2 mouse.
> 
> 	Anyone have any good sugestiosn here ?

Have you enabled it in the kernel?  You didn't write which FreeBSD
version you're running, for versions <= 2.1 you need to rebuild a new
kernel with the `psm0' device.  For 2.1.5 or recent 2.2 SNAPs, simply
boot with -c, and enable psm0 in UserConfig.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)