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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Another bus-mouse question
Date: 20 May 1997 09:34:02 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <1997May20.002135.11448@bilver.oau.org>,
	bill@bilver.oau.org (Bill Vermillion) writes:
> The answer about enabling a ps-mouse that was here last week
> didn't work for me.  Probably because I so new to BSD (though
> the version 7 syntax is coming back after a 12 year abscence)
> that I'm not doing something correctly.
> 
> The psmouse driver shows a conflict with the sc0/vt0 (SCO and
> VT-200) console drivers.
[.....]
This shouldn't be a problem.  The "conflicts" keyword in your kernel
config file says that it's ok that they conflict, and the drivers
are able to live together.

Perhaps you're having a problem with the "disabled" keyword.  Either
remove this (for psm0) or boot -c and enable your mouse.

> Bill

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Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
      <http://www.awfulhak.org>
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