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From: mattson@dcs.gla.ac.uk (Jim Mattson)
Subject: GW2K systems with Microsoft Mouse and FreeBSD-1.1 Beta
Message-ID: <Cn886C.88H@dcs.gla.ac.uk>
Organization: Computing Science Dept., Glasgow University, Glasgow, Scotland
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 1994 15:25:24 GMT
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The packages that GW2K Europe is shipping these days come with a
rather puzzling microsoft mouse.  My sales rep. claims that it's
a serial mouse, but tip'ping to tty[01] brings me no joy at all.
I tried configuring mse0 into my kernel, and the boot probe said
it didn't see it where it expected it.   The documentation that 
came with the system gives me no hints, except for a few diagrams
in which the mouse connector is labeled, ``PS/2 mouse.''

Is this, in fact, a PS/2 mouse?  How can I tell?  MAKEDEV knows
how to make a psm0 for me, and conf/files.i386 has the line:

i386/isa/psm.c			optional	psm	device-driver

but there is no psm.c to be found.

Has anyone else had any luck with this mouse?

--jim
-- 
Jim Mattson <mattson@dcs.gla.ac.uk>
Department of Computing Science, Glasgow University
17 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QQ
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