From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 28 15:44:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA26298 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 28 Mar 1998 15:44:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA26283 for ; Sat, 28 Mar 1998 15:44:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA28212; Sun, 29 Mar 1998 09:14:03 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id JAA22007; Sun, 29 Mar 1998 09:14:02 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980329091402.45077@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 09:14:02 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Brett Taylor , CerealMaN Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help with Xfree References: <000101bd5a15$89a5cf00$7e462599@default> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: ; from Brett Taylor on Sat, Mar 28, 1998 at 02:09:46PM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 28 March 1998 at 14:09:46 -0700, Brett Taylor wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, CerealMaN wrote: >> Hi, i am having problems with the pointer deivce when i start up FreeBsD >> 2.2.5.... i think i configured it right with a PS/2 mouse... but it says >> it's not configured right, i then tried XF86Setup and tried every mouse i >> could... can some one please help? > > If it's a PS/2 mouse you need to set that in the kernel - check your > kernel for the following line: > > device psm0 at isa? port "IO_KBD" conflicts tty irq 12 vector > psmintr (all on one line) It's better (exceptionally) to write this kind of line really all one line. > The generic kernel comes with this line, but with "disable" in it. If you > still have "disable", remove that word then remake and install your kernel > and reboot. You don't need to go to that trouble. 'disabled' devices are configured, they just don't go out looking for devices when you boot up. As somebody else said, you can (and almost certainly should) enable it at boot time by booting with the -c option and entering UserConfig. Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message