Date: Sat, 17 Aug 1996 09:43:58 -0459 (CDT) From: "Boyd R. Faulkner" <faulkner@asgard.bga.com> To: kenth@HNS.St-Louis.Mo.US (Kent Hamilton) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PS/2 Mice Message-ID: <199608171443.JAA21974@utgard.bga.com> In-Reply-To: <199608170546.AAA00344@gwydion.hns.st-louis.mo.us> from "Kent Hamilton" at Aug 17, 96 00:46:31 am
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According to Kent Hamilton: > > > Can someone please explain to me what the deal is with PS/2 mice? > I also haven't been able to get them to work with moused. > > Tonight was the first time I have tried to set up XFree86 with 'em > in a loooong time and that also fails. > > Anything that opens the mouse causes a console message of: > > Device psm0: name slot allocation failed (E=17) > Device npsm0: name slot allocation failed (E=17) Unless you are running with devfs mounted, that is not your problem. > > By mucking with the source, looking at what devfs does with it, etc > it appears that their needs to be two devices, psm0 and npsm0. with > a major of 21 and minor of 0 and 1 respectively. I tried creating > those and moused works. XFree86 still doesn't though. It gives me: Thanks, I'll try that. Are you using the minor 0 or 1 for X. Use the 1. That works fine for me. I shall try the 0 for moused, it has never worked for me either. > Should I just go buy a serial mouse? Can someone offer a little > info/help? I'm not a programmer but I guess I can give it a shot? Give that a try. > > -- > Kent Hamilton Play: KentH@HNS.St-Louis.MO.US > NIC Handle: KH91 URL: http://www.icon-stl.net/~khamilto/ > Blessed Be.... Work: KHamilton@Hunter.COM > -- _____________________________________________________________________________ Boyd Faulkner "The fates lead him who will; faulkner@asgard.bga.com Him who won't, they drag." http://asgard.bga.com/~faulkner Old Roman Saying -- Source: Joseph Campbell _____________________________________________________________________________
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