Optical PS/2 Mouse ???

[P.U.Kruppa]

On Sat, 9 Dec 2006, a at zeos.net wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 12:24:45PM +0100, P.U.Kruppa wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I invested 5 EUR in a nice Optical PS/2 mouse and I can't get it working with
>> FreeBSD, neither on console nor on xorg.
>> The mousepointer will only show up once on screen and then seems to vanish
>> somewhere in the lower border.
>> Of course the thing works wonderfully when I boot into windows.
>>
>> Does anyone have a working configuration ???
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Uli.
>>
>> Some data:
>> ----------
>> FreeBSD pukruppa.net 6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #0: Tue Dec  5
>> 07:50:41 CET 2006
>>
>>
>> Originally my mouse identified as
>> 	psm0: model IntelliMouse Explorer device ID 4
>>
>> Somewhere in the net I found the idea to set
>> 	hint.psm.0.flags="0x200"
>> now I get
>> 	psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> flags 0x200 irq 12 on atkbdc0
>> 	psm0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
>> 	psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0
>>
>> In my xorg.conf I have
>>
>> Section "InputDevice"
>>         Identifier  "Mouse0"
>>         Driver      "mouse"
>> #       Option      "Protocol" "auto"
>>         Option      "Protocol" "ps/2"
>> #       Option      "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
>>         Option      "Device" "/dev/psm0"
>>         Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
>> EndSection
>>
>> (I experimented with the #'s)
>>
>>
>>
>> Peter Ulrich Kruppa
>> Wuppertal
>> Germany
>>
>
> I have a nice Optical PS/2 mouse and it works fine both on console and
> on xorg.
> But I use FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE
>
> psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0
> psm0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
> psm0: model IntelliMouse, device ID 3
>
> There are the following hints:
>
> hint.psm.0.at="atkbdc"
> hint.psm.0.irq="12"
I have got these too,

thanks: Uli.

>
> I did not touch any hint since standard installation, and the kernel
> detects the mouse as IntelliMouse.
>
> Elisej Babenko
>



Peter Ulrich Kruppa
Wuppertal
Germany