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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.mathworks.com!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 problems with XF86 Date: 5 Aug 1996 19:31:54 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4u5i7a$62f@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4tmfgq$f3d@quasar.dimensional.com> <4u0b42$qnk@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4u45om$k92@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: > : Are you sure it's a PS/2 mouse at all? > > it's a PS/2. i bought a serial card and a ps/2 to serial adaptor and it > runs great. thanks for the effort... A ``PS/2 to serial adaptor'' must be something with a fair amount of logic on it, not just a simple two-connector-with-some-wires gadget. If it's the latter, your mouse ain't PS/2, it's just a serial mouse with a Mini-DIN connector. This one is _not_ covered by the psm driver. The true PS/2 mouse is perhaps better described as ``keyboard mouse'' (other unices include them into their `kd' driver). It plugs into the keyboard controller and acts very similar to a second keyboard, just that it sends mouse events as opposed to scan codes. -- 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. ;-)