problems with mouse ps/2 in FreeBSD 5.2

Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. kdk at daleco.biz
Thu Oct 21 09:10:45 PDT 2004


Lednev K.M. wrote:

>Hi, all!
>
>I have a problem with the mouse initialisation in FreeBSD 5.2
>My mouse is Logitech ps/2.
>There are next strings in GENERIC file:
># atkbdc0 controls both the keyboard and the PS/2 mouse
>device          atkbdc          # AT keyboard controller
>device          atkbd           # AT keyboard
>device          psm             # PS/2 mouse 
>And the next strings in /boot/device.hints file:
>hint.atkbdc.0.at="isa"
>hint.atkbdc.0.port="0x060"
>hint.atkbd.0.at="atkbdc"
>hint.atkbd.0.irq="1"
>hint.atkbd.0.flags="0x1"
>hint.psm.0.at="atkbdc"
>hint.psm.0.irq="12"
>After loading process there is no device /dev/psm0 - so there is no
>possible any works with mouse :( But in the same time keyboard ps/2 works
>successful as device /dev/kbd0 and the same mouse works successful on
>the same ps/2 port on another OS (Windows).
>Is is right configuration of mouse in Kernel? If so, then
>please, can you advise me something in this situation?
>  
>

Could we see the output of dmesg?

KDK


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