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Date:      Sun, 23 Jul 2000 23:26:35 +0100
From:      Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org>
To:        Chris Handy <chris@chrishandy.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: can't get ps/2 mouse to work...
Message-ID:  <20000723232635.I236@parish>
In-Reply-To: <000f01bff4ee$d97cece0$ab6ee43f@chrishandy.com>; from chris@chrishandy.com on Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 02:42:07PM -0700
References:  <000f01bff4ee$d97cece0$ab6ee43f@chrishandy.com>

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On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 02:42:07PM -0700, Chris Handy wrote:
> Hi all, hope this isn't incredibly trivial, but I've tried all I can think
> to do.
> Ver. 4.0 - RELEASE
> I have a ps/2 mouse attached to my comp and it's being recognised at start
> up - '/dev/psm0 irq12 ...' but I can't get it to function. I try and
> 'startx' and it says '/dev/psm0 not configured'. 'cat < /dev/psm0' yeilds
> the same thing.
> 
> Just to try something, I put 'di psm0' in the kernel.conf file and didn't
> get any boot message other then 'config> psm0' , though I was able to get X
> started but still no mouse functionality. 'cat < /dev/psm0' still yeilds not
> configured messages. I have not tried to update any of the drivers.
> 
> I know the mouse is good, and have tried other mice.That machine was a linux
> box and it worked fine there.  Any ideas?
> 

Do you have the following in /etc/rc.conf:

moused_port="/dev/psm0"
moused_enable="YES"
moused_type="auto"



> Thanks
> C
> 
> 
> 
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