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by **mlw** » Sun, 19 Sep 1999 04:00:00

I have one of those e-cheapo Cyrix machines by power spec. It is 200MHZ
and 48Meg ram. It isn't all that bad as a test machine. Well, anyway, to
my point.

Linux, Windows, and Windows NT all recognise the PS/2 Mouse port.
FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE, however does not.

At boot time it clearly states "psm0 not found"

Anyone have any ideas?

by **Chris Costell** » Sun, 19 Sep 1999 04:00:00

> I have one of those e-cheapo Cyrix machines by power spec. It is 200MHZ
> and 48Meg ram. It isn't all that bad as a test machine. Well, anyway, to
> my point.
> Linux, Windows, and Windows NT all recognise the PS/2 Mouse port.
> FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE, however does not.

Are you booting the GENERIC kernel or your own custom kernel?
If it is your own custom kernel, is the IRQ setting correct?

Quote:> At boot time it clearly states "psm0 not found"
> Anyone have any ideas?

If all else fails, perhaps you may have better luck with
3.3-STABLE. See if anything listed at

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/isa/psm.c?only_on_branc...

may affect your situation.

by **mlw** » Sun, 19 Sep 1999 04:00:00

> > I have one of those e-cheapo Cyrix machines by power spec. It is 200MHZ
> > and 48Meg ram. It isn't all that bad as a test machine. Well, anyway, to
> > my point.

> > Linux, Windows, and Windows NT all recognise the PS/2 Mouse port.
> > FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE, however does not.

> Are you booting the GENERIC kernel or your own custom kernel?
> If it is your own custom kernel, is the IRQ setting correct?

I used the GENERIC kernel as well as compiled my one removing every
device that conflics. The IRQ is right, all PS/2 mouse ports should be
the same, right? I mean the mice can be different, but generic PS/2
ports are all the same. So I don't get what the issue is.

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by **Chris Costell** » Sun, 19 Sep 1999 04:00:00

>> > I have one of those e-cheapo Cyrix machines by power spec. It is 200MHZ
>> > and 48Meg ram. It isn't all that bad as a test machine. Well, anyway, to
>> > my point.

>> > Linux, Windows, and Windows NT all recognise the PS/2 Mouse port.
>> > FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE, however does not.

>> Are you booting the GENERIC kernel or your own custom kernel?
>> If it is your own custom kernel, is the IRQ setting correct?
> I used the GENERIC kernel as well as compiled my one removing every
> device that conflics. The IRQ is right, all PS/2 mouse ports should be
> the same, right? I mean the mice can be different, but generic PS/2
> ports are all the same. So I don't get what the issue is.

If you have time to, see if you can get your system up to
3.3-STABLE (snapshots are availible at ftp://current.freebsd.org
-- you can also CVSup and make world, which is described at
http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/stable.html). If not, still
submit a PR with details about your hardware, configuration, etc.

(man send-pr or http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html)

by **Bruce Burd** » Mon, 20 Sep 1999 04:00:00

: I used the GENERIC kernel as well as compiled my one removing every
: device that conflics. The IRQ is right, all PS/2 mouse ports should be
: the same, right? I mean the mice can be different, but generic PS/2
: ports are all the same. So I don't get what the issue is.
:
Umm, I am not sure you answered the question. Or, perhaps
you did, obliquely. You should have the following lines in
you config file:

controller atkbdc0 at isa? port IO_KBD
device atkbd0 at atkbdc? irq 1
device psm0 at atkbdc? irq 12

I have used psm mice in 2.2-STABLE, 3.x-CURRENT, 3.2-
STABLE and 4.0-CURRENT versions of the OS. I have never had
a problem with them not working.

Bruce
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by **mlw** » Mon, 20 Sep 1999 04:00:00

> : I used the GENERIC kernel as well as compiled my one removing every
> : device that conflics. The IRQ is right, all PS/2 mouse ports should be
> : the same, right? I mean the mice can be different, but generic PS/2
> : ports are all the same. So I don't get what the issue is.
> :
> Umm, I am not sure you answered the question. Or, perhaps
> you did, obliquely. You should have the following lines in
> you config file:

> controller atkbdc0 at isa? port IO_KBD
> device atkbd0 at atkbdc? irq 1
> device psm0 at atkbdc? irq 12

> I have used psm mice in 2.2-STABLE, 3.x-CURRENT, 3.2-
> STABLE and 4.0-CURRENT versions of the OS. I have never had
> a problem with them not working.

I too have used FreeBSD 2.x, NetBSD, Linux, Windows (9x, NT), OS/2, etc.
None of these operating systems had a problem. I thought the ps/2 mouse
was one of the best known interfaces around. The only issue I remember
with FreeBSD 2.x was that psm was not in the generic kernel(or was that
NetBSD?).

Yes, I do have psm0 in the config file, and I did do a "make depend"
first. ;-)

Anyway, trust me, I'm sure it is something strange with this machine.
The odd thing is I have had, on this very machine, Linux, Windows, and
NT with no mouse issues. I have the hard disk on a slide, so I shut it
down, removed the FreeBSD boot drive, and replaced it with the Linux
boot drive, and the mouse came up working.

It is a powerspec Cyrix MediaGX 200 Mhz. It is just one of those
troubling things. I had to hand configure the XF86_SVGA driver, to deal
with the stupid MediaGX video. (XFree335 seems to handle this device
better than 333)

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