From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 19 15:14:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA00288 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 19 May 1998 15:14:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA00252 for ; Tue, 19 May 1998 15:14:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA11934; Tue, 19 May 1998 15:14:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 15:14:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "Tyson N. Trebesch" cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <01BD8251.3DD25BC0.tyson@avicom.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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