I have tried both the rectangular and puck mice on my 3100 and found that
only the puck one works with netbsd. 

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J. Alexander Jacocks	Systems Administrator
			National Institutes of Health
			NIH/DCRT/CFB/EASS
silence@wam.umd.edu	alex_jacocks@nih.gov
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On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, Jonathan Stone wrote:

> 
> >One thing I've yet to test - the mouse that didn't work (and I assumed
> >was dead) was one of the new style rectangular mouses (a VSXXX-GA),
> >where as the one that works OK is one of the older hockey-puck mouses (a
> >VSXXX-AA). 
> 
> The mouse I had on the 3100 I booted before the release was a
> `hockey-puck'. I _thought_ it worked.  Simon, if your mouse works on
> an Ultrix box, can you try it on the 3100 again, with the DELAY(100)
> ramped up to DELAY(150) or DELAY(200)?  Maybe the square mouse needs
> a longer delay.
> 
> >BTW, Do we still need the `set +m' thing to start xfs?  I did it anyway.
> 
> 
> I have managed to reproduce this at last ):.  A 5000/150 consistently
> starts xfs, xdm and X without any problems, as long as I don't do
> ntpdate and start xntpd.  When I do those two, the first Xserver
> hangs.  I'm guessing it's a race of some kind on /dev/console, or
> possibly, just possibly, a bug in the select() emulation.
> 
> 
> >ps: We need to <ctrl>-3 work as <ESC> in console mode - arrows can
> >wait :)
> 
> Uh, doesn't Ctrl-[ work?
>