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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA1843 ; Tue, 23 Feb 93 15:00:43 EST Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!source.asset.com!hissam From: hissam@source.asset.com (Scott A. Hissam) Subject: Re: XFree 1.2 keyboard and busmouse? Message-ID: <1993Feb22.003800.54428@source.asset.com> Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1993 00:38:00 GMT References: <1993Feb20.054629.23295@source.asset.com> <RICH.93Feb20221619@omicron.Rice.edu> Organization: Asset Source for Software Engineering Technology Lines: 67 In article <RICH.93Feb20221619@omicron.Rice.edu> Rich@Rice.edu writes: >In article <1993Feb20.054629.23295@source.asset.com> hissam@source.asset.com (Scott A. Hissam) writes: > group, > > I have XFree 1.2, a standard no frills keyboard and logitech > 3button busmouse: questions: > > 1 X startx in 640x480 w/ 800x600 virtual OK but keyboard > returns strange stuff I cannot type anything reasonable > just garbage is returned > >Ack, I honestly have no idea, so I won't make any guesses. > > 2 what do i put after "BusMouse" in Xconfig, the server > wants a device entry - which device shall I give for a > busmouse - nothing fairly evident in /dev > > I am using the server-pccons.tar files, and the pre-compiled > Kernel from agate.berkeley.edu gee - except that I cannot type > and I have no mouse - everything works file :-) > >you need to recompile the kernel in order to add a busmouse driver. >there are several available listed below. > > We currently have three drivers available by anonymous ftp: > > A port of Erik Forsberg's bus mouse driver for 386bsd was posted to > comp.unix.bsd in Oct 91 by Sandi Donno sandi@uctcs.cs.uct.ac.za. > It's available by anon ftp from kappa.rice.edu (128.42.4.7) in > pub/ms-busmouse.tar.Z. > > A beta release of a logitech Bus Mouse driver written by Fred > Cawthorne <fcawth@delphi.umd.edu> which supports XFree86 under > 386bsd. It's on kappa.rice.edu in pub/logitech-busmouse-0.2.shar.Z. > > Rick Macklem <rick@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca> wrote a driver for the > Logitech and ATI Inport Bus mice for use with 386bsd. There are > patches to this driver by Eugene Stark <stark@sbcs.sunysb.edu> to > support the Microsoft bus mouse. It's on kappa.rice.edu in > pub/Macklem-busmouse.uu. > > Johan Solhed <Johan.Solhed@lu.erisoft.se> ported the Linux PS/2 > mouse driver to 386BSD. It includes a PS/2 to Microsoft protocol > converter in the driver so XFree86 understands the mouse events. > > 386bsd kernel binaries with bus mouse drivers are not available, but > if someone were willing to help us test and support them it could be > done. We can't without the hardware. > group, in followup to my problems with XFree 1.2 busmouse and keyboard I have solved them with the help of you'all - thanks! the keyboard problem - mistery to me - after applying all of patchkit 2.1 and recompiling the kernel the keyboard worked just fine! I don't know what was wrong with the kernel from agate (cksum'ed OK), so it's scrapped as far as I'm concerned. the busmouse - got a lot of pointer to where they can be received so I'm going to get them and hope they work (this is great!). thanks again scott