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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!howland.erols.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!mr.net!winternet.com!not-for-mail From: ttv@winternet.com (Thomas Veldhouse) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: PS2 Mouse PROBLEM Date: Tue, 04 Feb 1997 06:48:21 GMT Organization: StarNet Communications, Inc Lines: 21 Message-ID: <32f6da71.199156@news.winternet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp-67-228.dialup.winternet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99g/32.339 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34691 I managed to boot into my system using the FIXIT disk. Not a very elegant boot though. Ignore my last post. Now my other problem. I have been trying to configure X to run. I like the configuration interface, except for one thing. It doesn't support a PS/2 mouse without a complete recompile of the Kernel. What kind of joke is this. Most computers use PS/2, or so I thought. I tried every combination of protocols and devices, just to make sure and to no avail. The simple help screen says that to use a PS/2 mouse a recompile is necessary. That is just about all the documentation there is to recompile the kernel. I found some basic stuff about editing MYKERNEL from a copy of GENERIC and such. Nowhere in this file was there anything (obvious anyway) about PS/2 mouse. I don't want to recompile this kernel and install it just to find out that I won't be able to boot anymore. I need some good documentation, such as comes with Linux, if you can call that good. HELP!!! Where is all the documentation. The stuff at FreeBSD.org is next to useless it seems. I haven't found a answer there yet. Tom Veldhouse ttv@winternet.com