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Date:      Mon, 10 Feb 1997 09:51:43 -0500
From:      exidor@superior.net (Christopher Masto)
To:        jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Cc:        tony@dell.com (Tony Overfield), bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Stuck! 2.2 Gamma won't go.
Message-ID:  <19970210095143.MQ04786@@>
In-Reply-To: <20780.855564012@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Feb 10, 1997 00:40:12 -0800
References:  <3.0.1.32.19970210022848.00691d20@bugs.us.dell.com> <20780.855564012@time.cdrom.com>

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Jordan K. Hubbard writes:
> > If I follow those directions, :-), it indeed works ok. 
> 
> Good to know. :)
> 
> > But, when I instinctively reached for the mouse and 
> > moved it, it totally hosed me down.  I consider this 
> > broken.  After all, hadn't I just finished telling it 
> > what kind of mouse I have?  Not only that, but it puts 
> 
> I'm sure it is broken, and I'm sure it's the PS/2 mouse driver
> breaking you.  Trying to read from it as a serial mouse (which X will
> try to do initially through the /dev/mouse symlink when you've got it
> set wrong) probably confuses the spit out of the PS/2 driver and this
> results in your particular system's keyboard going away (though
> probably not with all systems or we'd have no doubt heard about this
> before now).

Whoops.. I have this same problem every time I install on a PS/2-mouse
system.  I just assumed it was known, since it was cautioned against
on the opening screen.
-- 
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