Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 18:48:35 -0800 From: al7oj@customcpu.com To: Gregory Lewis <glewis@dartagnan.maths.adelaide.edu.au>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ps2 mouse Message-ID: <19990410025011924.AAA204@anch01.customcpu.com@mail.customcpu.com> In-Reply-To: <9904100123.AA14890@dartagnan.maths.adelaide.edu.au>
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Thanks, Greg. I will give that a try and let you all know. I must have totally missed that in the docs :( Mike In <9904100123.AA14890@dartagnan.maths.adelaide.edu.au>, on 04/10/99 at 10:53 AM, Gregory Lewis <glewis@dartagnan.maths.adelaide.edu.au> said: >> I just re-installed FreeBSD 3.0-R and have a problem that I didn't have >> before. When I try "startx", I get a fatal error about my mouse. >> I forgot to write it down, but it is like: "...device in use". I then have >> to kill the moused process (killall moused), and then X loads fine and the >> mouse works great. Like I said before, when 3.0-R was running before (I >> had to change HD's), I didn't have this problem. I also tried compiling >> the kernel (after new install), but that didn't help. The psm0 device is >> in the kernel! Any ideas? >> Mike >Sounds like you are using /dev/psm0 as your mouse device in your >XF86Config rather than /dev/sysmouse (which is what you need to use if >you are running moused for exactly this reason). You may also have to >check the protocol if this is the case when you change it as >/dev/sysmouse uses the SysMouse protocol (or MouseMan if memory serves >me). ----------------------------------------------------------- Using OS/2 Warp4 & MR2ICE (20601) I use FreeBSD (3.0), Debian Linux (2.0), OS/2 Warp 3&4, and Amiga! ----------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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