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From: dem@dolby.com (Douglas Mandell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: ATI Bus Mouse with NetBSD
Date: 9 Aug 1994 22:04:19 GMT
Organization: Dolby Laboratories, Inc.
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Distribution: world
Message-ID: <328uh3$4hg@iserver.dolby.com>
Reply-To: dem@dolby.com
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OK, OK! I give up! What's the magic incantation to get the mouse on an ATI
Graphics Ultra Pro (ISA) to work?
I'm using NetBSD-current 1.0 Beta, and I re-configured the kernel to include
the mms0 device, and then rebuilt it (twice, in fact). During boot-up, the
mouse device fails to show up. I double-checked the I/O address and IRQ (0x23c
and 5, same as the config file), but the probe is still missing it, and of
course, the X server won't start (gives "device not configured" error).
1.) Is the mms0 device the correct one for this mouse? The ATI literature
is maddeningly devoid of technical detail, mentioning only briefly that
the "input is Microsoft BusMouse compatible".
2.) Is there something else I need to do after rebuilding and installing a
new kernel to make the system recognize new hardware? (I already tried
re-making the character-special device /dev/mms0).
Thanks in advance for any help I get.
--Douglas Mandell