From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 10 19:06:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA14085 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 19:06:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA14020 for ; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 19:05:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA00164; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 19:05:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 19:05:50 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Michael Streeter cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PS/2 Mouse and Lock during Boot In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message