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From: ted@oz.plymouth.edu (The Wizard of Oz)
Subject: Re: Is NetBSD pms driver working?
Message-ID: <1993Oct30.033939.23619@oz.plymouth.edu>
Organization: Plymouth State College - Plymouth, NH.
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Date: Sat, 30 Oct 93 03:39:39 GMT
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In article <CFoFFE.263@cc.umontreal.ca> surprenc@beryl (Surprenant Colin) writes:
>One thing is sure, pms must be on IRQ 12. not 5.
>I tried to do a cat of -both- devices 'cat < /dev/pms0' and I get the
>same problem as when I tried to using it directly with X, it freezes the
>keyboard.
>
>the weird thing is that doing cat < /dev/pms0, nothing happens when I move
>the mouse. Then after doing ^C to abort the cat, I return to the shell but
>the keyboard is frozen.
Well, I did try IRQ 12 but what made me try 5 was the man page for pms:
this is a portion:
PMS(4) NetBSD Programmer's Manual PMS(4)
NAME
pms - PS/2-style bus mouse driver
SYNOPSIS
device pms0 at isa? port "IO_BMS0" tty irq 5 vector pmsintr
FILES
/dev/pms0 first PS/2-style bus mouse
I tried it this way, no luck. I got IO_BMS0 as undefined, so I tried
using IO_BMS1 as I saw someone else post. I was just trying to get it to work.
I guess the easiest way may be to get an adapter to attach the mouse
to the com port.
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