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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Wed, 5 Feb 1997, Miki Janosi wrote:

> I have a Compaq Presario 7100 Pentium 100 MHz computer and the PS/2 
> AUX mouse doesn't work with FreeBSD 2.1.0, although my Compaq Prolinea 
> 575e 75 MHz computer at work does. The mouse does work with Linux 
> Slackware 3.0 and the only difference I see is code for the Chips &
> Technology 82C710 interface chip. Is there a driver available or is 
> someone working on one? Am I correct or am I missing some easy 
> solution? Will it be taken care of in a later release? Please send me 
> some suggestions.

You need to enable the PS/2 mouse by enabling the psm0 device in the
kernel.  It may require you to rebuild your kernel -- it's been a while
since I've done this.

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