From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Feb 10 06:51:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA05556 for bugs-outgoing; Mon, 10 Feb 1997 06:51:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from nimbus.superior.net (root@nimbus.superior.net [206.153.96.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA05551 for ; Mon, 10 Feb 1997 06:51:50 -0800 (PST) Received: (from exidor@localhost) by nimbus.superior.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA20725; Mon, 10 Feb 1997 09:51:43 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <19970210095143.MQ04786@@> 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. References: <3.0.1.32.19970210022848.00691d20@bugs.us.dell.com> <20780.855564012@time.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.59.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20780.855564012@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Feb 10, 1997 00:40:12 -0800 Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. -- Christopher Masto . . . . chris@masto.com . . . . . Masto Consulting: info@masto.com On Health: I've been laid up with the intentional flu. - movie mogul Samule Goldwyn