From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 16 11:12:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA11704 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 16 May 1997 11:12:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de (helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de [141.31.166.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA11696 for ; Fri, 16 May 1997 11:12:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from helbig@localhost) by helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA27084; Fri, 16 May 1997 20:12:31 +0200 (MET DST) From: Wolfgang Helbig Message-Id: <199705161812.UAA27084@helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> Subject: Re: mouse In-Reply-To: <337C8E7D.208C@psu.edu> from Brian Freeman at "May 16, 97 12:42:37 pm" To: bef126@psu.edu Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 20:12:21 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL30 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Hi, > > I have recently installed FreeBSD 2.2.1. I am currently trying to > install XFree86. The problem I have is that I can't configure my > mouse. It's plugged into the PS/2 port on the back of my computer. > It is a fairly new Logitech (about 1 year old). It worked fine under > win/95 where it was configured as a Microsoft mouse. I tried every > available protocol on the options menu but none of them seemed to work. > Do you have any suggestions on how I can configure my mouse or what > I did wrong when I installed FreeBSD. You have to enable the psm0 driver during kernel configuration time (or build a custom kernel with psm0 driver enabled) and then configure the mouse with /stand/sysinstall to be a PS/2 mouse. > > Thank you You're welcome Wolfgang > Brian > bef126@psu.edu >