On 13-Sep-98 PUCK =-=-=-= spoke unto us all:
#  hello,
#  I was woundering if anyone has haveing trouble with the xfree86 xserver, 
#  about the mice not working. Im using a 486 Compaq notebook with NetBSD 
#  1.3.2, its about 6-7 years old the monitor is still black and white. But 
#  there is a mouse hooked on the side of the monitor, and when I start X, 
#  my mouse wont work, but if I take a external mouse form my 233 mmx PC, 
#  and hook it into my Compaq, it works on the port /dev/tty00, but the 
#  internal mouse on the side of the monitor wont work on that port (cant 
#  find the port). But I have had some help but no one could find the port 
#  to the mouse near the monitor. Its not port /dev/tty01 cause thats my 
#  modem's port.

Try enabling ps/2 style mice in the kernel and recompiling.. see if it picks
the mouse up as one of those.. I have a presario 425 that has a PS2 mouse on
it..

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Tim Rightnour    -  root@garbled.net
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