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Date:      Fri, 3 Jul 1998 11:58:51 -0500 (CDT)
From:      steven wesley wilson <swwilso1@students.uiuc.edu>
To:        jeff <jeff@wilkshire.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ps2 mouse
Message-ID:  <Pine.SOL.3.96.980703115827.25079A-100000@ux5.cso.uiuc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <01bda6a1$4604b120$d82ccecf@graphic.wilkshire.net>

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Jeff,

Did you enable ps/2 support in the kernel when you installed the system?

On Fri, 3 Jul 1998, jeff wrote:

> i have 2 workstations that i have setup with Freebsd 2.2.5.
> These systems are standard computers (ie pentium 133 with 64 mb ram)
> not a name brand, just a custom built computer.
> 
> The ps/2 mice work with windows 95 and dos, but when i format the drive and
> install Freebsd, using XF86Setup i cannot get the ps/2 mouse to function on
> either
> machine. i can get a standard serial mouse to work using /dev/cuaa0. but
> that is all.
> i have tried many different ps/2 mice, and even tried disabling the serial
> ports, to
> allow only the ps/2 ports to function. still no go...i even checked the bios
> to make
> sure that the ps/2 ports are turned on.
> 
> i have tried all settings within XF96Setup using /dev/psm0, /dev/mouse
> ....etc...
> no go....
> 
> any ideas?
> 
> thank you
> 
> jeff
> 
> 
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