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From: arog@BIX.com (arog on BIX)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: ATI Bus Mouse with NetBSD
Date: 15 Aug 94 13:11:20 GMT
Organization: Delphi Internet Services Corporation
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dem@dolby.com (Douglas Mandell) writes:

>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



I'll suggest 'booting to dos' and running the ATI setup utilities
at the card... and take a look as to how it is configured. It
just might be set to 'serial' of to an odd interupt in its eeprom.

er... make that - or and odd -

........................................................
Alan Ogden
arog@BIX.com