Date: Tue, 06 Jan 1998 12:29:15 -0500 (EST) From: PARADOX@DEPAUW.EDU To: goeringerm@keywest.ird.rl.af.mil Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PS2 Mouse Support Message-ID: <01IS21ED9GOM000MSI@DEPAUW.EDU>
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Greg Bedrossian said: >It appears that while in the GUI setup screen you can choose this type >of mouse, it is disabled in the kernel config for the reason that it >claims to have a conflict with the "IO_KBD" interupt vector 12. Further >investigation shows that in fact it is not the IRQ that seems to be the >conflicting issue, but thr port address 0x60 that conflicts with the >Keyboard port address 0x60. While the config table indicates that this >conflict is "allowed" after adding the "psm0" driver to the "Active >Drivers" list, when you enter the config screen in X86 GUI mode to >configure the mouse, the keyboard freezes. Exactly the problem I had. My solution was to use the non-GUI xconfig program. Took some library work to get the monitor/video card details, but, whatever the problem the GUI config had with the mouse doesn't hinder the functioning of Xwindows. (as described above, I enabled the psm0 driver. I did not load the Xwindows stuff with the initial FreeBSD installation. After seeing that all was working properly, I used /stand/sysconfig to install Xwindows. Back at the command-line, I did the textmode configuration.) Louis Smogor paradox@depauw.edu
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