From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 10 22:25:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA24436 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 22:25:40 -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 WAA24383 for ; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 22:25:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA28507; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 22:25:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 22:25:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: andyt cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new install problem In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980409061549.00827b30@mail.htp.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 Thu, 9 Apr 1998, andyt wrote: > I have installed freebsd 2.2.5 from cd on a 486-66 computer. The > motherboard is a 486-pvt ? it supports an optional ps/2 mouse . I am > currently using a serial mouse. At startup Freebsd 2.2.5 recongizes a > ps/2 mouse and I can't get the serial mouse to work. I had the same > problem with bsdi 2.1 but was unable to resolve it. Any help would be > appreciated Andy What application are you trying to use the mouse in? XWindows? The system should detect the serial port the mouse is connected to, but it's the app's responsibility to configure/drive the mouse. 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