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Date:      Wed, 9 Apr 1997 20:08:50 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Dan Riley <daniel@vailsys.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions mailing list <questions@freefall.freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Mouse lockups
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970409200716.4997E-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970408103802.666A-100000@crocodile.vale.com>

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On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Dan Riley wrote:

> 
> I recently added a new keyboard to my system. Now the mouse will not 
> function, either moused, dies as soon as vidcontrol -m on is entered, or the 
> mouse in X, wont repsond to tracking or button press. All worked fine before 
> the new keyboard. 

Your new keyboard may be incompatible or is stomping your mouse.  Not a
lot we can do for you other than try a different keyboard.
> 
> The motherboard utilizes the small din connectors for the keyboard and 
> mouse peripherals. Ovbviously I am using the psm driver. I have kernel 
> support for psm0 compiled and have it enabled via sysconfig at startup.
> Let me mention again that all worked fine before the new keyboard, no 
> other mods to the system hardware or configuration.

The small DIN connectors denote this as a PS/2 keyboard & mouse. If it is
probing correctly and the keyboard works, then.....

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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