Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 15:14:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Tyson N. Trebesch" <tyson@avicom.net> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980519151325.11841T-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <01BD8251.3DD25BC0.tyson@avicom.net>
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On Mon, 18 May 1998, Tyson N. Trebesch wrote: > Can you help me? > I'm trying desperately to get my Microsoft PS/2 mouse running so I can > install XFree86 on a Pentium 200 running FreeBSD 2.2.5. > > This is my problem: Whenever I try to run 'moused -t ps/2 -p psm0' from the > command line I get the standard syntactical error message and help. This is > probably because I blew away the psm0 device node thinking there was a > problem with it. I had been getting a boot error saying, 'psm0: device not > configured' or similar. So, I deleted the psm0 file, and made a weak > attempt at re-making it. I tried '# MAKEDEV psm0' to no avail. > How do I remake the psm0 device??? Thanks beforehand! Is your kernel even finding the psm0 mouse? `Device not configured' means that it found the file and tried to open it but the kernel said that it doesn't know anything about that device. Check `dmesg'. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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