At 12:22 AM 9/10/98 -0600, Al Urbaitis wrote:
>I am having a spot of trouble with my laptop...
>I have an NEC 6030 Versa
>I have installed the distribution from the NetBSD 1.3.2 CD
>I am running the generic kernel
>
>I am having trouble with the configuration of the XFree86 server.
>
>I don't know the appropriate way to describe my mouse.

I recently installed NetBSD on my Dell laptop and it has a trackball which
is just a 
PS2 device and I would guess that your "pad" is a PS2 equiv. First of all
you have to 
make sure that you have support for the PS2 in your kernel, this means that
you have to
recompile a new one, which is not too bad a thing anyhow. Secondly, your
XF86Config should 
use, if I recall correctly, BusMouse *not* PS/2. I believe this is because
of the way the
NetBSD driver behaves, intentionally, with the PS/2 mouse. Right now my
laptop is running
NT, but if I reboot tonight I will email you the line you need. Lastly,
this is mentioned
in the FAQ, though I too missed it at first :-)

-mike


>
>I have two choices...
>1. the laptop has two buttons and a touch pad for a pointing device
>2. there is a PS/2 port ( I have a three button mouse available )
>
>with the three button mouse not installed...
>dmesg does not give me a reference to pmsX, lms or mms
>
>with the three button mouse installed
>dmesg looks the same
>
>Starting the server with "startx" results in a hasty exit
>with the message ...
>Fatal server error
>Cannot open mouse (Device not configured)
>
>Sooo....
>My best guess is that either the line for Protocol
>or Device is incorrect (XF86Config)
>
>1. What would be the appropriate entries for the touch pad ?
>2. What woould be the appropriate entries for the PS/2 port three button
>mouse
>
>Any other gotchas...
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>Al Urbaitis
>aurbaiti@servecom.picker.com
>
>
>
>