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From: tlw@teleport.com (Tommy Willoughby)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help! get my mouse to work.
Date: 9 Nov 1996 20:45:33 GMT
Organization: Teleport - Portland's Public Access (503) 220-1016
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Fantomas@at.com wrote:
: Please help me to get my mouse working. I have a regular Microsoft mouse
: conected to its own port (round plug). I don't know what device to use? Tried
: ttyd0 to ttyd3 but that did not work. On ttyd0 i could see it but it does move
: at all. On the other ones startx did not work at all with message unknown mouse.
: Could you please help me to get my mouse to work. 

That's a PS-2 mouse & it's device psm0. Boot -c & go into the setup screen
(or whatever it's called) & select it from the "input" options. Then I
*think* you have to re-build the kernel to enable it.

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