Subject: Re: weird pms behavior...
To: Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net>
From: Matthieu Herrb <matthieu@laas.fr>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/16/1998 23:04:32
You wrote (in your message from Mon 16)
> So, I have XFree86 mostly running, but it's behaving strangely. Symptom:
> mouse stays in or near lower left corner of the screen. Move mouse to
> right, cursor moves up. Move mouse up or down, cursor jumps back to lower
> left corner.
>
> It's a PS/2 mouse, it's connected to a PS/2 port, I get squiggles from it
> if I cat /dev/pms0, and I've got XFree86 configured to use a PS/2 mouse.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
You should configure a PS/2 mouse as BusMouse under NetBSD, since
that's what the pms0 driver emulates.
(cf. <http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/i386/faq.html#x_and_ps2_mouse> or
<http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.2/NetBSD7.html#7>)
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Matthieu