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From: james@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: PS/2 mouse not working
Date: 16 Jun 1995 19:26:46 -0000
Organization: A FreeBSD box
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In article <3rmvtd$9pj@news.belwue.de>,
Markus Baeurle  <s671687@rghx50.gp.fht-esslingen.de> wrote:

>The problem is, it doesn't work! When I try to "cat < /dev/psm0" the reaction
>is "cat: stdin: Resource temporarily unavailable". :-((( OTOH, it's reported
>during bootup ("psm0 at 0x60-0x63 irq 12 on motherboard").
>The machine is a HP Vectra 486/66N and I still have FreeBSD 2.0R.

On my system, which displays exactly the same "symptoms", the mouse works
fine under X. Is your XF86Config file correct? Mine reads (in part)

Section "Pointer"
	Protocol "PS/2"
	Device "/dev/psm0"
	Emulate3Buttons
EndSection

James
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