How to make permanent in kernel

[Phil Schulz]

Tuc wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>         I had a problem with my mouse, and found the answer here :
> 
>  http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/x.html#PS2-X
> 
>         which says :
> 
> 11.14. Why does my PS/2 mouse misbehave under X?
> 
> Your mouse and the mouse driver may have somewhat become out of synchronization.
> 
> In rare cases the driver may erroneously report synchronization problem and you
> may see the kernel message:
> 
> psmintr: out of sync (xxxx != yyyy)
> 
> and notice that your mouse does not work properly.
> 
> If this happens, disable the synchronization check code by setting the driver fl
> ags for the PS/2 mouse driver to 0x100. Enter UserConfig by giving the -c option
>  at the boot prompt:
> 
> boot: -c
> 
> Then, in the UserConfig command line, type:
> 
> UserConfig> flags psm0 0x100
> UserConfig> quit
> 
> 
> 
>         Which is great. The problem is, I don't want to keep doing this
> every time I reboot. This is a FreeBSD 5 system. In 4 I knew how to
> do it with "device          psm0    at atkbdc? irq 12", but now not sure
> how do this in 5. I see something about a hints file, but not sure how
> it plays in, if at all.
> 

Mmmh, didn't I answer the very same question a while ago?

Anyways... add a line that reads

hint.psm.0.flags=0x100

to /boot/device.hints

Regards,

Phil.