From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 12 06:42:07 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id GAA15463 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 12 Feb 1995 06:42:07 -0800 Received: from hudson.lm.com (hudson.lm.com [192.231.221.4]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA15453 for ; Sun, 12 Feb 1995 06:42:04 -0800 Received: (from news@localhost) by hudson.lm.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) id JAA14713 for freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com; Sun, 12 Feb 1995 09:42:38 -0500 Path: hudson.lm.com!ivory.lm.com!not-for-mail From: peterb@telerama.lm.com (Peter Berger) Newsgroups: mail.freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Rebuild kernel for PS/2 MOUSE Date: 12 Feb 1995 09:42:20 -0500 Organization: Telerama Public Access Internet, Pittsburgh, PA USA Lines: 21 Message-ID: <3hl6oc$ec2@ivory.lm.com> References: <199502120145.UAA05097@dup.cs.fsu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ivory.lm.com Apparently-To: freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk PS/2 mouse support is iffy in 2.0-R; with my ps/2 mouse kernel I've got a 50/50 chance of being able to type after the autoconf stage. Sometimes things work fine, othertimes the keyboard just dies. Presumably this is because some part of the kernel is getting confused by the sharing of IO addresses; it seems totally nondeterministic. I've just upgraded to the 021095 SNAP and haven't seen this problem yet, but I've only been running for a day or so (have seen other problems though, like corrupted filesystems -- hopefully that's just cruft happening from the library/binary switch...) For what its worth, NetBSD 1.0 exhibited difficulty dealing with PS/2 mice in X-Windows, in a different way; keyboard response became sluggish when using a PS/2 mouse kernel. Go figure. Good luck. -- ...................................................................... Peter G. Berger, Esq. Telerama Public Access Internet, Pittsburgh Internet: peterb@telerama.lm.com Phone: 412/481-3505 Fax: 412/481-8568 http://www.lm.com/~peterb