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From: gary@wheel.tiac.net (Gary D. Duzan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: PS/2 mouse support/serial ports in NetBSD i386?
Date: 5 Jun 1995 19:53:34 GMT
Organization: Brain Dead Innovations
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Message-ID: <3qvnbv$7jh@sundog.tiac.net>
References: <3qvia7$1iv6@rover.ucs.ualberta.ca>
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In article <3qvia7$1iv6@rover.ucs.ualberta.ca>,
James S MacKinnon <jmack@phys.ualberta.ca> wrote:
=>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.
=>
It looks like the GENERIC kernel doesn't have the pms driver
compiled in. (Don't ask me why.) To get it to work, you need to
get a kernel with pms0 configured or get the kernel sources and
build one yourself. Once you get that done, you have to tell
XFree86 that you have a BusMouse, since NetBSD mouse drivers all
emulate a Bus Mouse.
Gary D. Duzan
Humble Practitioner of the Computer Arts