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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: PS2 problems with XF86
Date: 9 Aug 1996 06:35:59 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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seb@erix.ericsson.se (Sebastian Strollo) wrote:

> Yes, and this is causing at least me grief on my laptop with a
> trackball with a PS/2 interface (a DELL XPi). When starting X it hangs
> every now and then. I guess the right thing to do(?) for FreeBSD as
> well would be to integrate the psm driver into syscons.

The right thing would be a separate keyboard driver layer, with the
mouse and console drivers layered on top.

-- 
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. ;-)