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From: hlu@retro.lanl.gov (Henry Lu)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: More on psm mouse and 2.1.5
Date: 16 Oct 1996 19:08:30 GMT
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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Charlie Sorsby (crs@lanl.gov) wrote:
: Oops!  I meant to follow up to the news group but replied to the
: poster instead.  Here's what I sent:

: > To: conrads@neosoft.com
: > Subject: Re: psm mouse and 2.1.5
: > Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
: > In-Reply-To: <53cr6a$5hj@uuneo.neosoft.com>

: First, thanks for your response.

: In article <53cr6a$5hj@uuneo.neosoft.com> you write:
: = In article <53cop3$aao@newshost.lanl.gov>, Charlie Sorsby <crs@lanl.gov> wrote:
: = >While I try to keep up with the news group, I'm not always
: = >successful so I'll appreciate a Cc: to crs@hamlet.lanl.gov.
: = >
: = >I vaguely remember reading that there is a problem with the ps2
: = >mouse under 2.1.5.  Is that correct?
: = >
: = >What are the symptoms of that problem?  Is the problem
: = >insurmountable or is there a fix?
: = 
: = One thing I've noticed is that, after running an X session for a certain
: = length of time, the mouse begins behaving strangely.  Certain apps (mainly
: [...]

: This doesn't sound like what I experienced so maybe my problem is
: different.

: Some background:

: I had been running 2.1.0 but, due to a problem, the vendor of my
: system sent a replacement disk with 2.1.5 installed.  Now dmesg
: says this about psm:

: psm0: disabled, not probed.

: And, of course, when I try to run X, it complains about the mouse
: not being configured or something like that.

: It (dmesg) used to say:

: psm0 at 0x60-0x63 irq 12 on motherboard

: I'm not familiar enough with how this all works to figure out
: what's going on so I will be very grateful for any help.

: = 
: = -- 
: = Conrad Sabatier                  | 
: = conrads@neosoft.com              |  Eschew obfuscation.
: = http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads  | 
: = 



: -- 
: Best,

: Charlie "Older than dirt" Sorsby                         "I'm the NRA!"
:        crs@swcp.com crs@hamlet.lanl.gov              Life Member since 1965

Hi Charlie:

I also got it work by commenting out probe code. Obvious there is bug that
probing does not work.  the file is psm.2 in the kernel source

Henry H Lu