Date: Sat, 17 Aug 1996 00:46:48 -0500 (CDT) From: Kent Hamilton <kenth@HNS.St-Louis.Mo.US> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: PS/2 Mice Message-ID: <199608170546.AAA00344@gwydion.hns.st-louis.mo.us>
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Can someone please explain to me what the deal is with PS/2 mice? I also haven't been able to get them to work with moused. Tonight was the first time I have tried to set up XFree86 with 'em in a loooong time and that also fails. Anything that opens the mouse causes a console message of: Device psm0: name slot allocation failed (E=17) Device npsm0: name slot allocation failed (E=17) By mucking with the source, looking at what devfs does with it, etc it appears that their needs to be two devices, psm0 and npsm0. with a major of 21 and minor of 0 and 1 respectively. I tried creating those and moused works. XFree86 still doesn't though. It gives me: Warning: unable to get status of mouse fd (Invalid argument) and then shuts down. Should I just go buy a serial mouse? Can someone offer a little info/help? I'm not a programmer but I guess I can give it a shot? -- Kent Hamilton Play: KentH@HNS.St-Louis.MO.US NIC Handle: KH91 URL: http://www.icon-stl.net/~khamilto/ Blessed Be.... Work: KHamilton@Hunter.COM
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