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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!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!uknet!keele!news From: "R.J. Freemantle" <pha15> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: FreeBSD - Dell machines and psm0 mouse device problem Date: 5 Dec 1996 19:17:59 GMT Lines: 41 Distribution: world Message-ID: <587757$es0@gerry.cc.keele.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: udsp.elec.keele.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3 sun4m) X-URL: news:comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Dear All, I have been using FreeBSD for some time on a range of machines with no problems. I am trying to install FreeBSD (2.0.5 - yes I know its old) on a Dell machine but there is a problem with the mouse device. I have just installed FreeBSD 2.1.5 from scratch and got the same problem which is why I am calling on you all now. The machine is a Dell Optiplex GS5133 (133 MHz pentium). It has a PS/2 compatible mouse and this is giving me trouble. As soon as the device psm0 is probed during bootup, or using the configure option at boot time, the keyboard is rendered inoperable. In all other respects the machine is fine and I can log onto it from other hosts no problem. If I disable psm0 the keyboard works okay but I want to run X applications so I need a mouse device. I have a had a quick flick through the newsgroup postings but there seem to be few references to the problem I am experiencing. We have other 486 Dell machines which have the same kernel configuration (except I don't enable the pci0 controller). These machines have the same PS/2 compatible mouse (identical IRQ (12) and IO address (0x60-0x63) and I have no problems with these. Any ideas ? anyone else hit this problem or should I just get a serial line mouse ? Many thanks in advance. Richard -- ================================================= | Dr. R.J. Freemantle | | | | Research Fellow | | UDSP Laboratory | | Keele University, UK | | Email r.j.freemantle@elec.keele.ac.uk | | http://udsplab.elec.keele.ac.uk/team.html#rjf | =================================================