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Date:      Wed, 15 Jan 1997 16:43:56 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        "J. Scott Northcutt" <snorthcutt@celerity.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: psm0 and sc0
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.970115164309.5627S-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <32DDA089.1CD7@celerity.com>

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On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, J. Scott Northcutt wrote:

> I just installed the 2.2 Beta and am having a problem w/ a conflict
> between the console driver, sc0, and the ps/2 mouse port, psm0.  I have
> successfully run 2.1.0 and 2.1.6 (and even, *shiver*, Linux) with
> Xfree86 3.1.2 and now I would like to run the recently installed XF86
> 3.2, but the aforementioned conflict prevents the mouse (and thus X)
> from working.  Could someone please help me figure out what's up?  FWIW,
> the hardware is a Gateway 2000 Pentium 75 w/ 40 MB RAM.  Please reply
> directly as I do not ordinarily subscribe to this mailing list.  Thanks
> a ton.

The conflict is right, X's config is wrong.

edit /etc/XF896Config

modify the device to type PS/2
modify the device file to /dev/psm0

This is getting embarrasing - this is the 20th question regarding ps/2
mice this week. :(

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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