From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 9 12:05:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA04379 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 9 Apr 1996 12:05:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jbrann (jbrann.dialup.access.net [166.84.193.118]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA04362 for ; Tue, 9 Apr 1996 12:05:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jbrann@localhost) by jbrann (8.6.12/8.6.12) id OAA00543; Tue, 9 Apr 1996 14:05:14 -0400 Message-Id: <199604091805.OAA00543@jbrann> Subject: Re: PS/2 mouse trouble. To: longonic@luccioa1.itgate.mln.mts.dec.com (CARLO LONGONI @MLN) Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 14:03:53 -0400 (EDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org (freeq) In-Reply-To: <54142190406991/7784484@ITGATE> from "CARLO LONGONI @MLN" at "Apr 9, 96 12:31:01 pm" From: John Brann Reply-To: John Brann Organisation: Not while I'm at home X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL13 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk CARLO LONGONI @MLN wrote... > [This message is converted from WPS-PLUS to ASCII] > > TO : questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > > > Subject : Xfree86 mouse problems on Freebsd 2.05 > > > > Hello there, > > 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 . Congratulations, and welcome, but your software is a little out of date. 2.1 was released last November, and is available for download, or on CD. > > 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 ?...) . Already supported, though reports vary, I don't use one myself... > > 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. > Sounds like you may be a little tight for space. How much swap did you allow? > > 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 . Does 'dmesg' say that the device is found? If so, you are just missing the device file. As root, go to '/dev' and do: ./MAKEDEV psm0 after that do ln -s psm0 mouse The second command will match your XF86Config definition for the mouse device. After that, everything should be fine. > > 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 ? > > Thank you very much for your attention and collaboration and congratulation for the > quality of the product . > > > Roberto (Milan , Italy). > One last word, it would be helpful if the lines of your message were shorter. Regards, John -- Beavis and Butt-Head; Vladimir and Estragon for the '90s. finger jbrann@panix.com for pgp public key