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From: jmack@phys.ualberta.ca (James S MacKinnon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: PROBLEM: PS/2 mouse support/serial ports in NetBSD i386?
Date: 5 Jun 1995 18:27:19 GMT
Organization: Computing and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Lines: 62
Message-ID: <3qvia7$1iv6@rover.ucs.ualberta.ca>
NNTP-Posting-Host: tshimshan.phys.ualberta.ca
Hi,
After building NetBSD on my COMPAQ CDS944 over the weekend, I've
discovered that neither the INSTALL nor the GENERIC kernel has
PS/2 support, nor serial mouse support for that matter.
The kernels are:
NetBSD 1.0A (INSTALL) #14: Mon May 15 16:03:18 PDT 1995
cgd@pain.cs.berkeley.edu:/b/users/cgd/src/sys/arch/i38
6/compile/INSTALL
NetBSD 1.0A (GENERIC) #2: Mon May 15 16:20:13 PDT 1995
cgd@pain.cs.berkeley.edu:/b/users/cgd/src/sys/arch/i38
6/compile/GENERIC
I can run the X11 graphics at 1150x900, but the mice are dead
in any of these separate configurations:
PS/2: /dev/mouse -> /dev/pms0 (bus mouse)
serial: /dev/mouse -> /dev/tty01 (com2)
serial: /dev/mouse -> /dev/mms0 (microsoft)
serial: /dev/mouse -> /dev/mms1 (microsoft)
The X11 version is:
XFree86 Version 3.1.1 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6000)
Checking the devices yields unhappy results:
laddie# cat pms0
cat: pms0: Device not configured
laddie# cat pms1
cat: pms1: Device not configured
laddie# cat pms2
cat: pms2: Device not configured
laddie# cat mms0
cat: mms0: Device not configured
laddie# cat mms1
cat: mms1: Device not configured
(same behavior any Logitech critters)
cat /dev/tty01
(no response when moving the microsoft mouse on com2)
tip on the modem port /dev/tty00 fails as well (14.4K compaq modem).
It seems that the serial drivers are just broken in this release.
Both PS/2 and serial mice/modem port work fine in DOS and Linux on
this same hardware (UARTS are 16650A's).
Is there anything I am missing? Why doesn't the kernel notice the
PS/2 port? (Linux finds it and installs a driver just fine).
Thanks in advance,
--
James S. MacKinnon Office: P-139 Avahd-Bhatia Physics Lab
Department of Physics Voice : (403) 492-8226
University of Alberta email : Jim.MacKinnon@Phys.UAlberta.CA
Edmonton, Canada T6G 2N5
WWW: http://www.phys.ualberta.ca/~jmack/jmack.html