Subject: Re: PS/2 Mouse on no-name laptop.
To: None <port-i386@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.medford.ma.us>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/02/1995 11:57:48
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Since today seems to be "PS/2 Mouse Day", I figured I'd ask this..

I just set up my laptop to run X (this may be a mistake as it's a
386/25 with only 4MB of memory, and it seems to spend most of its time
paging...)

It has a detachable PS/2 mouse (well, trackball).

It's running a -current kernel (as of last week or so), with pms0 and
vt0 configured.  The pms.c driver has the following RCS tag:
/*	$NetBSD: pms.c,v 1.19 1995/01/07 22:48:29 mycroft Exp $	*/

If the mouse is plugged in when the pms0 device is configured, the
kernel doesn't see any keyboard input (caps lock and num lock don't
work either..)

If I boot up with the mouse unplugged, the pms0 device still
configures, and the keyboard works.  If I then plug the mouse in, the
keyboard keeps working.  If I then start X, the mouse works and the
keyboard works as long as the X server has control.  If I either (a)
switch out of the virtual console running X, or (b) stop the X server,
I again lose all keyboard input.

Has anyone seen anything like this?  If so, does anyone have a clue as
to what's going on?  Could this be related to the `XXXX This is a
hack.' comment in the pms driver?

Any hints on things to try?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions...

						- Bill

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