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#! rnews 1756 bsd Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.magicnet.net!news.thrush.com!alfred!bilver!bill From: bill@bilver.oau.org (Bill Vermillion) Subject: Re: Another bus-mouse question Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Orlando / Winter Park, FL Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 01:13:38 GMT Message-ID: <1997May21.011338.20420@bilver.oau.org> References: <1997May20.002135.11448@bilver.oau.org> <5lrr6a$l8u@ui-gate.utell.co.uk> Lines: 31 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41365 In article <5lrr6a$l8u@ui-gate.utell.co.uk>, Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org, brian@utell.co.uk> wrote: >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. Oh. I'm so used to SGI's IRIX - that if IT says conflicts you MUST resolve them so none exist - or else nada! >Perhaps you're having a problem with the "disabled" keyword. Either >remove this (for psm0) or boot -c and enable your mouse. I'll give that a shot on Thursday. I don't have the problem on the system here as it is a serial mouse. Much thanks. Bill -- Bill Vermillion - bill.vermillion@oau.org | bill@bilver.com