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From: jgreco@solaria.sol.net (Joe Greco)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.windows.x.i386unix
Subject: FreeBSD-1.1-BETA, XFree86-2.1, Logitech Bus Mouse, messed up keyboard I/O
Date: 19 Apr 1994 01:30:36 -0500
Organization: Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI
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Message-ID: <2ovtqc$fis@solaria.mil.wi.us>
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I've spent all day messing with this, trying to get a Logitech Bus Mouse to
work.  Symptoms: XF86_SVGA seems to work fine, except that most (usually
all) keyboard I/O never appears.  I can move the mouse around the screen and
scroll the screen.  I can pop an xterm up.  But when I try to type (in the
xterm), only about 10% of my characters make it, and eventually this seems 
to dwindle to nearly 0%.

I created a new kernel and tweaked some parameters.  I took the "mse0" entry
from the LINT kernel and added it, changing to irq 9.  (I later noticed a
FAQ saying to use irq6, but since that's the FD ctlr and my busmouse card
didn't have an irq6 setting, I ignored it)...  XSERVER is defined.  The
console driver is whatever GENERICAH's is (pccons I believe).  My kernel
sources are 30 miles away over a 14.4K SLIP link, so recompiles are a pain -
ie I haven't played extensively with the kernel.

I have a /dev/mse0 which is maj/min 27,1, crw-rw-rw-.  I put 
Busmouse	"/dev/mse0"
in my Xconfig.  I run XF86_SVGA and everything seems to work (mouse moves,
windows come up).  But the keyboard becomes totally useless.  What am I
doing wrong?  I don't see anything.  (probably something simple...)  On the
other hand, it feels like a driver problem.

Hardware: Northgate 386DX/25 motherboard, 11MB RAM
	  Trident 8900C video card, 1M RAM
	  60MB MFM disk, WD8003E @0x280,irq5, 2 16450 serial ports
	  Logitech Bus Mouse Controller, irq2/9

Ideas?  Comments?  Flames for missing an obvious FAQ?  Can anyone at least
narrow it down to being either a kernel problem or an XFree86 problem?
Does anyone have a magic patch?  Etc.

Thanks,

... Joe

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Joe Greco - Systems Administrator			      jgreco@ns.sol.net
Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI			   414/342-4847