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Date:      Sun, 11 Jan 1998 22:05:45 +1100
From:      "Eddie Irvine" <eirvine@tpgi.com.au>
To:        "Goeringer, Michael" <goeringerm@keywest.ird.rl.af.mil>, "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: PS2 Mouse Support
Message-ID:  <01bd1e80$dd9ddec0$ac1a1acb@gretchen>

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I have a ps/2 mouse and it works fine with X in FreeBSD 2.2.5.

When you boot up a generic kernel, go to configure mode and enable
the ps2 mouse. It does conflict with the keyboard, but this is OK.


Eddie.

>For some time now, I have been unable to implement my X86 GUI
>environment as a result of not being able to get my PS2 mouse to work.
>
>It appears that while in the GUI setup screen you can choose this type
>of mouse, it is disabled in the kernel config for the reason that it
>claims to have a conflict with the "IO_KBD" interupt vector 12




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