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To: "Sreenivasa Donepudi" <sdonepu@megsinet.net>
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Subject: Re: Mouse problem in Kernel & XF86 configuration 
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Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 02:05:25 +0100
From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
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> I have installed FreeBSD 2.2.1 on my Pentium recently. I was able to
> install it fairly quick. But I had one problem which I didn't notice and
> later showedup when I was configuring XFree86. 
> 
> The problem seemd to be with the mouse. My WIN95 configuartion tells me
> that my mouse is Microsoft PS/2 Bus Mouse!!! I used Microsoft compatible
> mouse at IRQ 5 and Port 0x23c in my kernel configuration (default), but the
> probe indicates an error in finding the mouse posrt at that add. I tried
> using PS/2 mouse but I have conflict with the default port address of 0x60.
> I don't know which port address to use for that.
> 
> Can someone suggest me where this problem could be, and what is the fix for
> that. I would appreciate your reponses.

You're using the wrong driver.  Boot with the -c option and enable 
the psm driver.

> Thanks,
> Sreeni.
> sdonepu@megsinet.net

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