From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 19 10:45:52 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA21726 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 10:45:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA21721 for ; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 10:45:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA24869; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 13:46:34 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199901191846.NAA24869@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: PS/2 Mouse and Keyboard with 2.2.8-release In-Reply-To: <688E2B97F0A9D211BD580000D11B13DF03E649@sta_mail1.darlington.ac.uk> from Jonathan Leaver at "Jan 19, 99 06:02:13 pm" To: JLeaver@darlington.ac.uk (Jonathan Leaver) Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 13:46:34 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jonathan Leaver wrote, > Hi, I'm new to this so please be generous with your patience... > > I've got a PS/2 Mouse and a [PS/2] Keyboard - one with a small plug > on it anyway... > > I can configure the Kernel, Eradicate Conflicts etc. BUT > > When the next configuration screen starts up the keyboard doesn't > work... > > I presume the System hasn't picked up the keyboard.... > > I need to know why. Any Ideas? Anyone suffered a similar fate? The PS/2 mouse and keyboard share a port. They are /supposed/ to "conflict." You have diabled the system from seeing the keyboard. Do not disable something called a console driver. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message