Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 11:02:35 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: longonic@luccioa1.itgate.mln.mts.dec.com (CARLO LONGONI @MLN) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I: freebsd questions Message-ID: <199604091802.LAA05385@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <54142190406991/7784484@ITGATE> from "CARLO LONGONI @MLN" at Apr 9, 96 12:31:01 pm
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> [This message is converted from WPS-PLUS to ASCII] [ This message converted from WPS-PLUS converted ASCII to 72 column ASCII ] > I've bought the CD version of FreeBSD from Walnut Creek which included > Xfree86 3.1.1 but I'm having some problems to use the last . > > First of all I will tell you something about my configuration ,I have > a Compaq Presario 7150 Pentium 75 PCI with S3 Trio64 Svga card ,16 MB > RAM ,520 MB Hard drive and a ATAPI CDROM (I know is not yet supported > , but you think I will be able to use it in the future with a patch > maybe ?...) . > > I have installed FreeBsd from a dos partition after having created a > 133 MB Freebsd partition with the custom installation and I've > installed the common distribution set plus the "system" sources and > the xfree86 kit. > > After the installation I've configured XFree86 to use the X interface > but trying to start it I've got the following error message : > > device not found /dev/mouse. > > After reading through the documentation I've realized that I had to > reconfigure the kernel to have my mouse ( a normal PS/2 with two > button) be recognised from the operating system. So with the help > of the LINT example I've created a MYKERNEL containing the > following instruction : > > device psm0 at isa? port "IO_KBD" conflicts tty irq 12 vector psmintr > > I've recreated successfully the kernel and I've tried again to run X > application , and this time I've received the following error : > > no device found at 0x60 > > With some diagnostic program I've checked that the PS2 mouse is > actually at irq 12 address 0x60 so I can't understand why Freebsd is > not able to find it . > > So at the end my question is how can I get to run X programs on my > machine , what's wrong with my procedure or what's wrong in my > machine ? 1) The name of the PS/2 mouse device is /dev/psm0, not /dev/mouse 2) You must specify the correct protocol line for a PS/2 mouse in your XConfig. See the XFree86 configuration "readme" that came with the package for details. 3) In addition to: device psm0 at isa? port "IO_KBD" conflicts tty irq 12 vector psmintr You may also need to add: # Options for psm: options PSM_NO_RESET #don't reset mouse hardware (some laptops) Especially if your mouse is really one of those keyboard pointer things. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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