Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 09:54:16 +0900 From: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp Subject: ATTENTION: enabling the PS/2 mouse driver in GENERIC Message-ID: <199803160054.JAA02098@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
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This issue has been raised several times before and we are approaching too close to 2.2.6-RELEASE. But, now I think it is safer to do this than ever. I would propose to enable the PS/2 mouse driver, psm, in the GENERIC kernel in 2.2-STABLE. In the past the psm driver caused problems with various motherboards, mostly old 386 and 486-based ones without the PS/2 mouse port. For this reason, the driver has been disabled by default and suggestion on enabling the driver were rejected. However, I believe that these motherboards are now out-numbered by newer motherboards and laptop computers with which the PS/2 mouse port comes as standard. We see a number of exchanges in mailing lists and news groups nowadays: "My PS/2 mouse doesn't work.", "Enable psm in UserConfig..." After enabling the psm driver in the GENERIC kernel, we may hear "My keyboard locks up (or works erratically)." occasionally, but, we can tell him to disable the psm driver then. After all, boot.flp advises the user to configure devices in UserConfig. If no one has any serious objection to this proposal, I would enable the driver by the end of the week. Kazu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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