Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 08:11:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert N Watson <rnw+@andrew.cmu.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PS/2 mouse HOW ?? Message-ID: <UkSF5ua00YUs42w0pg@andrew.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: <199510062121.OAA02111@phaeton.artisoft.com> References: <199510062121.OAA02111@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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Excerpts from internet.computing.freebsd-questions: 6-Oct-95 Re: PS/2
mouse HOW ?? Terry Lambert@lambert.or (431*)
> >
> > I have a ps2 style mouse, The 5 or six pin style I have tried the one option
> > that I have found in the FAQ's BUT it still doesnt work any one have
> any sugestions or doc's I can look at ?
> Probably your X config file is not using the correct protocol. See the
> X readme's and man pages.
Have you recompiled your kernel to support the psm0 device? If not, you
need to do so under 2.0.5R (not sure about later snaps.)
BTW -- a thought for 2.1, albeit maybe a little late in the cycle --
maybe an expanded generic kernel should be installed as part of the
bindist (as opposed to from the floppy) that has a few extra devices
that don't otherwise fit, such as the ps/2 mouse. A rapidly growing
number of people have ps/2 mice instead of serial mice, and making all
those people recompile the kernel seems silly, given a hopefully open
attitude towards easy expandibiity for non-experienced users. Or
something like that, anyway.
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Robert Watson (rnw+@andrew.cmu.edu) * Double major: IDS/CS * H&SS
http://www.watson.org/ robert@fledge.watson.org
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