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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!uwm.edu!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!howland.erols.net!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!uknet!keele!news From: "R.J. Freemantle" <pha15@elec.keele.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Dell machine and ps/2 mouse config problem Date: Fri, 06 Dec 1996 18:09:01 +0000 Lines: 31 Distribution: world Message-ID: <32A8613D.41C67EA6@elec.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 3.01 (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3 sun4m) CC: pha15@elec.keele.ac.uk Dear all, I tried posting this message yesterday but I think it got lost in the ether. I am loading freebsd 2.1.5 onto a Dell Optiplex GS5133 pentium. It uses a ps/2 compatable mouse so I have enabled the device psm0 in the kernel config. However as soon as the psm0 device is probed during bootup the keyboard hangs but the machine comes up fine and I can logon to the machine no problem from our network. If I disable the psm0 device the keyboard works fine. Similarly if I use a serial line mouse everything works fine. Any ideas what could be going on or has sucessfuly installed FreeBSD on a similar machine ? I have successfully installed FreeBSD on 486 Dell machines with the same mouse setup (IRQ12 IO address 0x60-0x63) and have never had this problem before. PS can you email copies of any replies just in case my news setup is flaky. -- ================================================= | 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 | =================================================