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#! rnews 1544 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.uoregon.edu!news.dacom.co.kr!newsrelay.netins.net!imci5!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news1.digital.com!pa.dec.com!depot.mro.dec.com!rtnews.rto.dec.com!news From: Francis Hitchens <hitchens@epa001.enet.dec.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: PS/2 mouse on DEC Celebris woes Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 08:33:14 +0100 Organization: Digital Equipment GmbH Lines: 25 Message-ID: <3132B3BA.167E@epa001.enet.dec.com> References: <DnCuyx.M09@ml.csiro.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: trabi.mfr.dec.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; OSF1 V3.0 alpha) CC: pjb@ml.csiro.au Peter Billam wrote: > It's a DEC Celebris GL 5100 and has a PS/2 mouse. I added the lines > > options ALLOW_CONFLICT_IOADDR > device psm0 at isa? port "IO_KBD" tty irq 12 vector psmintr > (**) Mouse: type: PS/2, device: /dev/mouse, baudrate: 1200 > ... > Fatal server error: > Cannot open mouse (device not configured) > Dear Peter, I had the same problem on my (Ahh they don't make machines like that any more) DecStation 325, which I solved with the following Config file entry. device psm0 at isa? port "IO_KBD" conflicts tty irq 12 vector psmintr Without the "conflicts" entry, the kernel refused to configure the psm0 device at boot time. Regards Francis J. Hitchens