greetings,

i'm a new NetBSD user and have been playing with the alpha and macppc
ports, and so far i've really enjoyed it.

i have a problem with my multia however and i'm hoping someone can assist.
actually, its two things.

first and foremost, the machine will lock up entirely if i plug a mouse
in, or have one plugged in then boot the machine.

secondly, after it announces where root and swap are on their respective
partitions, it asks me to hit enter to start /bin/sh.  i do so, then type
'exit' and it goes about its marry way.

why is that?

attached is my dmesg output:

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    The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.

NetBSD 1.5_BETA2 (MINI-ME-YOU-COMPLETE-ME) #1: Thu Nov 26 15:20:24 EST
2020
    root@bitchslap:/usr/src/sys/arch/alpha/compile/MINI-ME-YOU-COMPLETE-ME
(PCI ISA), 233MHz
8192 byte page size, 1 processor.
total memory = 98304 KB
(2368 KB reserved for PROM, 95936 KB used by NetBSD)
avail memory = 86072 KB
using 612 buffers containing 4896 KB of memory
mainbus0 (root)
cpu0 at mainbus0: ID 0 (primary), LCA-2 (21066 pass 2)
lca0 at mainbus0
pci0 at lca0 bus 0
pci0: i/o space, memory space enabled, rd/line, rd/mult, wr/inv ok
siop0 at pci0 dev 6 function 0: Symbios Logic 53c810 (fast scsi)
siop0: interrupting at isa irq 11
scsibus0 at siop0: 8 targets, 8 luns per target
sio0 at pci0 dev 7 function 0: Intel 82378ZB System I/O (SIO) (rev. 0x84)
de0 at pci0 dev 8 function 0
de0: interrupting at isa irq 15
de0: DEC 21040 [10Mb/s] pass 2.3
de0: address 08:00:2b:e6:ef:bf
unknown vendor 0x0001 product 0x0000 (miscellaneous prehistoric, revision
0x01)
at pci0 dev 9 function 0 not configured
tga0 at pci0 dev 11 function 0: DC21030 step B, board type T8-02
tga0: 1028 x 768, 8bpp, Bt485 RAMDAC
tga0: interrupting at isa irq 10
wsdisplay0 at tga0: console (std, vt100 emulation)
isa0 at sio0
com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4: ns16550a, working fifo
com1 at isa0 port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3: ns16550a, working fifo
pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60-0x64
pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot
wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0
lpt0 at isa0 port 0x3bc-0x3bf irq 7
wss0 at isa0 port 0x530-0x537 irq 9 drq 3: CS4231A
audio0 at wss0: half duplex, mmap
pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
spkr0 at pcppi0
fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2
fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB, 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec
mcclock0 at isa0 port 0x70-0x71: mc146818 or compatible
pcic0 at isa0 port 0x3e0-0x3e1 iomem 0xd0000-0xd3fff
pcic0: controller 0 (Intel 82365SL Revision 1) has sockets A and B
pcic0: controller 1 (Intel 82365SL Revision 1) has no sockets
pcmcia0 at pcic0 controller 0 socket 0
pcmcia1 at pcic0 controller 0 socket 1
stray isa irq 3
stray isa irq 4
scsibus0: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
sd0 at scsibus0 target 2 lun 0: <SEAGATE, ST34520N, 1498> SCSI2 0/direct
fixed
siop0: target 2 now synchronous at 10.0Mhz, offset 8
sd0: 4340 MB, 9006 cyl, 4 head, 246 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 8888924 sectors
de0: enabling 10baseT port
pcic0: controller 0 detecting irqs with mask 0xdeb8:<3>stray isa irq 5
stray isa irq 5
stray isa irq 5
stray isa irq 5
stray isa irq 5; stopped logging
stray isa irq 14
stray isa irq 14
stray isa irq 14
stray isa irq 14
stray isa irq 14; stopped logging
pcic0: no available irq; polling for socket events
root on sd0a dumps on sd0b
syncing disks... done
rebooting...

thats from when i logged in, fsck'ed and rebooted the machine.  if i just
'exit' and let it finish its fine.  though apparently at some point today
it freaked out and crashed and stopped driving the VGA.

i did recompile a kernel, based on the MINI-ME sample in the syssrc
tarball.

i also would like to get rid of those 'stray isa irq' messages.  but i'll
settle for unattended boot at this time :)


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