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From: storm@eskimo.com (Marc Wandschneider)
Subject: [NetBSD]: InPort mouse problems...
Message-ID: <CE5AyH.Cs7@eskimo.com>
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Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1993 02:37:36 GMT
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D'oh!

	Just picked up a Bus Mouse Yesterday in the hopes that it 
	would free a serial port for other things, and am having
	a few problems getting XFree86 to recognize it.

	Running NetBSD 0.9, I recompiled the kernel with the following
	line added in:

device          mms0    at isa? port "IO_BMS1" tty irq 5 vector mmsintr

	The recompile went fine, and during reboot, I received the 
	following message, which I took to be a good sign:

mms0 at 0x23c-0x23f irq 5 on isa

	The card is configured exactly as that---The primary port
	at port 0x23c, and on IRQ 5.

	There was no mms0 entry in /dev/, so I created one, using

	% cd /dev
	% mknod mms0 c 35 0

	where 35 is a number I obtained from file /sys/arch/i386/i386/conf.c.

	Now, I added the line:

	Microsoft       "/dev/mms0"

	To my Xconfig file.

	However, XFree always complains that it can't get the
	status of mouse fd (invalid argument).

	Is the NetBSD mms driver compatible with XFree?  What can I
	do to get it working?


	Merci.

						Toodlepip!
						marc 'em.
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Marc Wandschneider					    Redmond, WA
       "Satan has a stranglehold on my toilet and he won't let go!"
			- frm the Weekly World News