From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 22 10:59:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from petent.ocsny.com (petent.ocsny.com [204.107.76.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E13F11B48 for ; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 10:58:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pcollins@ocsny.com) Received: from ocsny.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by petent.ocsny.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA00407; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 14:02:31 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from pcollins@ocsny.com) Message-ID: <36D1A9C7.B37AAD4@ocsny.com> Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 14:02:31 -0500 From: pete collins X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adam K Kirchhoff Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Not detecting PS/2 mouse References: <36D16D1E.652C4D01@voicenet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Adam K Kirchhoff wrote: > For some reason, FreeBSD (versions 2.2.8, and 3.1, as well as a > snapshot of 3.0) doesn't detect my ps/2 mouse. I've tried a number of > different mice (Logitech 3-button, Microsoft, Compaq), all of which have > worked under Linux and OpenBSD, but which have never been detected by > FreeBSD. Even thought the GENERIC kernel is supposed to support the > ps/2 mouse, I went ahead and recompiled the kernel under 2.2.8, but it > still refused to see it. > During the boot process I've also gone in UserConfig mode to specify > different io ports... Still no luck. > I'm going to try to recompile the kernel under 3.1 tonight and give > it another go. > I would really like to give up on Linux and switch over to FreeBSD > but I have no free serial ports and can't exactly do much without a > mouse. > The computer is a Compaq Presario 2200, with a Cyrix MediaGX > processor and any help would be greatly appreciated. > Thanks. > > Adam K > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message make sure you have this line uncommented in your kernel config file device psm0 at isa? port "IO_KBD" conflicts tty irq 12 vector psmintr that usually does it for me later To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message