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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!newsgate.duke.edu!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: PS2 mouse locks up in X -help Date: 30 Jul 1996 21:36:42 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4tlv9a$c0o@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4tkb5r$62k@quasar.dimensional.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E monachus@dimensional.com (Monachus Silentium) wrote: > device psm0 at isa? port "IO_KBD" conflicts tty vector psmintr > > and then ran MAKEDEV to create psm0. on bootup it finds the mouse (either > a logitech trackman marble or a compaq mouse, depending on which one > doesn't work :)). Are you sure they are PS/2 mice at all? There seems to be some confusion. PS/2 mice are those with the small plastics pin in the center of the Mini-DIN plug. To increase the confusion, there are also serial devices with Mini-DIN plugs, but they've got a metallic (contact) pin in the center. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)