Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 02:22:02 +0200 From: Phil Schulz <ph.schulz@gmx.de> To: Tuc <tuc@ttsg.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to make permanent in kernel Message-ID: <40E3592A.6090804@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <200406302157.i5ULv0dq072950@himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com> References: <200406302157.i5ULv0dq072950@himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com>
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Tuc wrote: > Hi, > > I had a problem with my mouse, and found the answer here : > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/x.html#PS2-X > > which says : > > 11.14. Why does my PS/2 mouse misbehave under X? > > Your mouse and the mouse driver may have somewhat become out of synchronization. > > In rare cases the driver may erroneously report synchronization problem and you > may see the kernel message: > > psmintr: out of sync (xxxx != yyyy) > > and notice that your mouse does not work properly. > > If this happens, disable the synchronization check code by setting the driver fl > ags for the PS/2 mouse driver to 0x100. Enter UserConfig by giving the -c option > at the boot prompt: > > boot: -c > > Then, in the UserConfig command line, type: > > UserConfig> flags psm0 0x100 > UserConfig> quit > > > > Which is great. The problem is, I don't want to keep doing this > every time I reboot. This is a FreeBSD 5 system. In 4 I knew how to > do it with "device psm0 at atkbdc? irq 12", but now not sure > how do this in 5. I see something about a hints file, but not sure how > it plays in, if at all. > Mmmh, didn't I answer the very same question a while ago? Anyways... add a line that reads hint.psm.0.flags=0x100 to /boot/device.hints Regards, Phil.
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