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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:9474 alt.sys.pc-clone.gateway2000:44 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,alt.sys.pc-clone.gateway2000 Subject: Re: GW2K systems with Microsoft Mouse and FreeBSD-1.1 Beta Date: 27 Mar 1994 17:48:43 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman MT Lines: 27 Message-ID: <2n4gtr$crm@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <Cn886C.88H@dcs.gla.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <Cn886C.88H@dcs.gla.ac.uk>, Jim Mattson <mattson@dcs.gla.ac.uk> wrote: [ PS/2 mouse in FreeBSD ] >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? On most hardware the psm.c driver works, but on others is makes the system completely unusable. There is a patch floating around that I posted to the FreeBSD-hackers mailing list which contains a README and everything you need to get a working (hopefully?) driver for the PS/2 mouse under FreeBSD 1.X. It should be on the archive sites. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD core member and all around tech. nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-4836 | Graduating May '94 with a BS in EE home #: (406) 586-0579 | - looking for work in CS/EE field.