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From: marat@Glue.umd.edu (Marat Fayzullin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.2-RELEASE: psm0 problem?
Date: 22 Mar 1997 17:25:13 GMT
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Eric J. Rossin (ejr@sonic.net) wrote:
: I just upgraded 2.2-BETA to 2.2-RELEASE. Eveything appears to have
: gone OK, except the mouse (using the psm driver) now does nothing.
: I know there were problems under 2.2-BETA, but at least X "saw" the
: mouse, which basically worked. Now, when I enter X, it comes up fine,
: but the mouse is dead.
: What have I done wrong?
Probably one of two:

1. The mouse device is set wrong in X86config 
2. You switched on the console mouse driver which made psm0
   inaccessible for the X.