Quoting Mark Tamola,

> i don't know how people feel about me asking this question on this list, 
> but i really wouldn't know who else to ask.  when i try to run the 
> svgalib version of doom on my netbsd-1.1-alpha system (from 
> munitions.wasabi.com) it just dies with a message saying:

> mouse_init() failed

> and then it screws up my keyboard, totally disarranging the keys making 
> it unable to type (it just prints a bunch of control characters and stuff 
> instead of the regular key output).  this never happened when i tried 
> sdoom under linux, so it must be a problem with the emulation?

You either don't have a link in /emul/linux/dev pointing to your
mouse device(s), or your libvga.config file is missing or wrong.

See the compat_linux(8) manual page and the libvga.config file (presumably
present on the system where you copied the libsvga shared library from)
for details.

- Frank