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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ps/2 mouse problems
Date: 31 Aug 1996 15:40:54 GMT
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"Keith A. Tomkins" <ktomkins@cisco.com> wrote:

> 	Everything seemed to go OK until I tried to fire up
> Xwindows. I have the pointer set up as a ps2 mouse (psm0) but when I
> try to crank up X, it complains that the mouse is not
> configured. The device exists in /dev. I then

The non-existance of the device node would have caused the message
``No such file or directory'' (ENOENT).  The message ``Device not
configured'' (ENXIO) means that the driver is not available, or the
device does not respond.

> looked at dmesg and it complained that the ps2 mouse was not probed due to a
> conflict.

Quote this message.

-- 
cheers, J"org

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