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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.development:1283 comp.os.386bsd.bugs:1540 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!metro!news From: dawes@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Dawes) Subject: Re: Microsoft Mouse driver for XFree [NetBSD 0.9] Message-ID: <1993Oct4.015605.23299@ucc.su.OZ.AU> Sender: news@ucc.su.OZ.AU Nntp-Posting-Host: physics.su.oz.au Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia References: <1993Sep30.172025.8306@dfw.paranet.com> <28lt7o$77t@werple.apana.org.au> <28n4cf$ce9@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1993 01:56:05 GMT Lines: 37 In article <28n4cf$ce9@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) writes: >In article <28lt7o$77t@werple.apana.org.au>, >Andrew Herbert <andrew@werple.apana.org.au> wrote: >>lacoursj@dfw.paranet.com (Jeff Studman) writes: >> >>It sounds like your kernel config file (in /sys/arch/i386/conf) is slightly >>broken. It should include a line similar to the following: >> >>device mms0 at isa? port "IO_BMS1" tty irq 5 vector mmsintr >> >> >>Jumpy mice are symptomatic of a mouse device with a minor number of 0 rather >>than the 1 that is required for X servers. Using MAKEDEV avoids this >>problem. > > > The problem might very well lie in XFree86, which supposedly > assumed that Microsoft Mouse=="com?". David Dawes noted > this yesterday, and was kind enough to send me a patch that > might very well take care of the problem. As soon as I am Just to clarify this, Marc is using a recent beta version of XFree86 which complains if it can't get the tty settings of the device used by certain mouse types (including Microsoft). The 1.3 version silently ignores such things. So, if you are using XFree86 1.3 and have busmouse problems, the cause must be something different. >Marc Wandschneider Seattle, WA David -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ David Dawes <dawes@physics.su.oz.au> DoD#210 | Phone: +61 2 692 2639 School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia | Fax: +61 2 660 2903 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ You run and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking and racing around to come up behind you again. -- Pink Floyd, "Time"