der Mouse wrote:

> > I'm using NetBSD 1.5  not the beta version or anything.
> > What baudrate does it expect on default?
>
> 1200.  Absent hardware hackery, that's what Sun mice run at.  Mice
> recent enough to have miniDIN-8 connectors can generally run at 4800,
> or in some cases 9600 - but to get that, you have to open up the mouse
> and do a little soldering work.
>
> > It's a type 4 keyboard.  And I don't know what baudrate the optical
> > mouse that comes with it runs at.  Anyone know this?
>
> Unless someone's opened it up and rewired the baudrate select pins, it
> runs at 1200.  Or at least it tries to; it's possible, albeit unlikely,
> that the mouse's baudrate crystal, or the host's, has drifted far
> enough to disrupt communication.
>
> > Or does the info above suggest the baud rate is not the problem?
>
> If it works fine for minutes on end (you said it sometimes will go for
> an hour without a complaint), that suggests to me that the baudrate is
> not part of the problem.  (It was unlikely to start with, but it is
> one of the few possible problems capable of producing this symptom that
> could be fixed in software.)

Wow, well this is a really weird damn problem then if it's not
the baud rate. It does work fine for minutes at a time. Most of
the bad is when you first turn it on. I have now, over the past 2
days checked putting in a different keyboard and cable and
optical mouse. No improvement.  Any other ideas anyone?
der Mouse?

Actually something bad just happened.:((( oh but you have
to laugh:))) my SS2 just blew up!  Just then! I'm currently
suffocating in the smell of burning electronic components.
It looks like the power supply blew up. Wow. BAck to the
drawing board for the sparc I reckon....

HEY I wonder if the power supply was on the way out
(I had a couple of strange un requested reboots in the
last 2 weeks), and if the rail voltage was down perhaps
the mouse couldn't function optimally?


cheers,
Paul.






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