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Date:      Tue, 10 Feb 1998 19:05:50 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Michael Streeter <streetm@sunyit.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: PS/2 Mouse and Lock during Boot
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980210190408.29893J-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPP.3.96.980209172817.27567A-100000@demeter.sunyit.edu>

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On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, Michael Streeter wrote:

> I installed 2.2.5 from the Walnut Creek Dist CDs.  Everything went great
> until I enabled psm0 from within the visual kernel editor (after
> removing all other mouse pointers).  When the system rebooted, it
> displayed the boot screen, but only went three lines further.  It did not
> get beyond loading the kernel -- not even to the point of displaying the
> FreeBSD name.

Hm, odd.  Did you keep the conflict between psm0 and sc0?  That should be
there.

> Out of disgust, I removed the entire system and began the reinstallation
> process.  This time, I enabled psm0 immediately (before the OS was
> installed), and the system still froze.

If you had simply rebooted again, the problem would have gone away since
the system hadn't fully booted, thus not rewritten the config info back
into the kernel.

> I am running on a Gateway P5-166XL, with average specs.  Any help would be
> greatly appreciated! 

What happens if you turn the psm0 device off?  How about unplug the mouse?

I believe there are some options you can compile in for un-breaking broken
PS/2 controllers.

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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