At 11:18 PM 9/10/98 -0600, Al Urbaitis wrote:
>Michael C. Ibarra wrote:
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>> 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
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>Thanks for the assistance ... After recompiling the kernel and making
>the appropriatechanges to XF86Config  X seemed to start up.
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>Having a look at the screen is a bit disheartening...The screen is an
>800x600 TFT display.
>driven by a Chips & Technologies ct65550 chip set...
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>The default display looks terrible 640 x480 not centered, overscanned
>etc.
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>Any chance you might let me have a look at your XF86Config  file ?

I wouldn't do that to you, you could cause damage to your machine. The
monitor on my
Dell is a NeoMagic 2070 and it is very different from yours. I would
recommend you look up
yours on their website and reconfigure. Also, you may want to look into an
accellerated
XServer if one is available.

-mike

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>Al Urbaitis
>aurbaiti@servecom.picker.com
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