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From: brian@shift.lan.awfulhak.org (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: HELP - laptop touchpad + XFree86
Date: 4 Mar 1997 16:54:31 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <5f4q9t$ptu@newsread.onramp.net>,
itech@onramp.net (David Johnson) writes:
> I have a Sharp 9030 with a built-in touchpad. In the BIOS, there is a feature
> to disable the Glidepad and use instead the PS/2 port. In Windows, the mouse
> is configured as a PS/2 mouse with irq 12.
>
> Under FreeBSD 2.1.6 and XFree86 3.2, I am unable to find the touchpad. I have
> reconfigured the kernel to look for psm0 at 0x60, irq 12. The boot-up says
> psm0 at 0x60 - 0x63 irq 12 on motherboard. However, it also has
> sc0 at 0x60 - 0x6f irq 1 on motherboard.
>
> If I cat < /dev/psm0, I get
> cat: stdin: Resource temporarily unavailable
>
> Please help
>
Sounds like you don't want the moused stuff in /etc/sysconfig ! It's
good stuff, but doesn't work well with X (AFAIK).
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !