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From: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: PS/2 mouse config on a laptop
Date: 22 Apr 1996 16:27:06 GMT
Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations
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Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com>
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In article <4lcv2a$r1a@cmgm.stanford.edu>,
Ritchie Froehlich <ritchief@cmgm.stanford.edu> wrote:
>I'm still having problems, though. On boot-up I get this message :
>
> psm0 at 0x60-0x63 IRQ 12 on the motherboard
Good, you're mouse if found.
>and indeed crwxrwxrwx /dev/psm0 and lrwxr-xr-x /dev/mouse->mouse exist.
The second is bogus, and should probably be deleted from MAKEDEV. Use
/dev/psm0
>However, when I startx with either the MouseMan or Logitech pointers
>configured in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config, the following warning is
>issued :
>
> Warning: unable to get statuse of mouse fd (invalid argument).
It should look like this:
# **********************************************************************
# Pointer section
# **********************************************************************
Section "Pointer"
Protocol "PS/2"
Device "/dev/psm0"
>X. When I added the psm0 device to the kernel, I noticed it too a really
>long time to rebuild and install (about 1.5 hrs on a 486 33).
Then something is *really* wrong with your system. 1.5 hours to
recompile a kernel is outrageous. It takes about 15 minutes on my
486/66. How much memory do you have on your box?
> At first,
>I thougth that it was because this was the first time I'de built a new
>kernel; however, on successive builds, the amount of time required was
>roughly the same. Does a 1 line change in the kernel config really
>necessitate a complete rebuild or am I missing a critical point here?
FreeBSD re-builds the kernel from scratch every time. This is a kludge
to over-come dependency problems which happen from using CPP
definitions, which make depend doesn't take into account. (I'm not
aware of any dependency program which takes them into account.)
Nate
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