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Subject: No mouse in X, Dell Inspiron 5150
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Hello Family,

I have a new triple booted Dell Inspiron 5150 and the mouse
works with WindowsXP, Linux, and I can't get it to even be
detected with FreeBSD-5.2.1 installed from CD.

On my Mandrake-10.0 Linux /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 it has the
mouse stanza of:

###################################################

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier "Mouse1"
    Driver "mouse"
    Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
    Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
    Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
EndSection

###################################################

On the FreeBSD-5.2.1 machine I have a VERY nice KDE display with
the new Nvidia package and my current XF86Config section for
the mouse looks like this:

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Mouse1"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option "Protocol"    "PS/2"
    Option "Device"      "/dev/sysmouse"
###################################################

I've tried to add the "ExplorerPS/2" to the FreeBSD version
and the Xserver complains about not honoring the
"ExplorerPS/2" tag. And I also tried the line
Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7" and got nothing.

Once again the mouse was not detected during a
/stand/sysinstall configuration attempt either.

Needless to say, any help here would be appreciated.
This is the latest version of FreeBSD, 5.2.1 and I purchased
it to do a fresh install.

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