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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!ncar!newshost.lanl.gov!retro!hlu From: hlu@retro.lanl.gov (Henry Lu) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: More on psm mouse and 2.1.5 Date: 16 Oct 1996 19:08:30 GMT Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory Lines: 68 Message-ID: <543bre$6eo@newshost.lanl.gov> References: <53drv0$j93@newshost.lanl.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: retro.lanl.gov X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Charlie Sorsby (crs@lanl.gov) wrote: : Oops! I meant to follow up to the news group but replied to the : poster instead. Here's what I sent: : > To: conrads@neosoft.com : > Subject: Re: psm mouse and 2.1.5 : > Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc : > In-Reply-To: <53cr6a$5hj@uuneo.neosoft.com> : First, thanks for your response. : In article <53cr6a$5hj@uuneo.neosoft.com> you write: : = In article <53cop3$aao@newshost.lanl.gov>, Charlie Sorsby <crs@lanl.gov> wrote: : = >While I try to keep up with the news group, I'm not always : = >successful so I'll appreciate a Cc: to crs@hamlet.lanl.gov. : = > : = >I vaguely remember reading that there is a problem with the ps2 : = >mouse under 2.1.5. Is that correct? : = > : = >What are the symptoms of that problem? Is the problem : = >insurmountable or is there a fix? : = : = One thing I've noticed is that, after running an X session for a certain : = length of time, the mouse begins behaving strangely. Certain apps (mainly : [...] : This doesn't sound like what I experienced so maybe my problem is : different. : Some background: : I had been running 2.1.0 but, due to a problem, the vendor of my : system sent a replacement disk with 2.1.5 installed. Now dmesg : says this about psm: : psm0: disabled, not probed. : And, of course, when I try to run X, it complains about the mouse : not being configured or something like that. : It (dmesg) used to say: : psm0 at 0x60-0x63 irq 12 on motherboard : I'm not familiar enough with how this all works to figure out : what's going on so I will be very grateful for any help. : = : = -- : = Conrad Sabatier | : = conrads@neosoft.com | Eschew obfuscation. : = http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads | : = : -- : Best, : Charlie "Older than dirt" Sorsby "I'm the NRA!" : crs@swcp.com crs@hamlet.lanl.gov Life Member since 1965 Hi Charlie: I also got it work by commenting out probe code. Obvious there is bug that probing does not work. the file is psm.2 in the kernel source Henry H Lu