Good to hear.  I'm adding this msg to all the others in my notebook.  Als=
o,
today I will try installing on box #2.


Kevin Cousins <kevin.cousins@praxa.com.au> wrote:
> =

> =

>     Petra> The mouse is still inop still not sure why.  It is a PS/2
>     Petra> that worked in win95 but the connector uses a db9 to conn to=

>     Petra> the comm1 serial port.
> =

>     Frank> Then it's a serial mouse. If you have
> =

>     Frank> Device "/dev/tty00"
> =

>     Frank> that's good, but try something else for the Protocol value,
>     Frank> perhaps "MouseMan" or "MouseSystems" (I don't know what
>     Frank> brand it is).
> =

>     Petra> The label on the back reads: Mouse Port Compatible Mouse 2.0=
A
>     Petra> Microsoft Corp
> =

> A data point: I've just been through this exercise with a COMPAQ
> Armada 1700 laptop---how should one tweak XF86 to use the mouse that
> was supplied with the machine?  As the machine was provided by my
> employer, and as I held low hopes of the inbuilt touchpad behaving
> sensibly (and neither had any of the previous users of this machine
> who apparently used an external mouse too), I was left with xf86config =

> and some angst.
> =

> In my case, the mouse bears a label on its underside, reading:
> =

>   IntelliMouse (R) serial and PS/2 compatible ... Microsoft Corp ...
> =

> FWIW, dmesg told me that opms0 had probed successfully, so I tried
> several permutations of /dev/pms0, IntelliMouse, PS/2, etc..
> =

> What worked for me was "Device /dev/pms0" (because that just happens
> to be how mice are connected to this machine.  I could just have
> easily thrown a dumb old two button serial mouse onto /dev/tty00), and
> "Protocol MouseSystems".
> =

> My bonus: the touchpad works a treat!
> =

> Rack up NetBSD machine #8 for me! :)
> =

> --
> Kevin.


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