Subject: Re: NetBSD/386 newbye + PS2 mouse problems
To: Juan Jose Garcia Ripoll <jjgarcia@ind-cr.uclm.es>
From: R. C. Dowdeswell <elric@mabelode.imrryr.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/11/2000 10:37:14
On 958069299 seconds since the Beginning of the UNIX epoch
Juan Jose Garcia Ripoll wrote:
>
>Now only two questions.
>
>1) This Toshiba works has a built in PS2 mouse. It works in W**. It works
>with XFree86 under Linux. But in NetBSD I am having problems with it. The
>sympthoms are as follows: I issue "startx" and as soon as I touch the
>thing it slips to a side of the screen and nobody can take it from there.

On NetBSD you must configure a PS/2 mouse to use the BusMouse protocol, as
the kernel translates many mouse protocols to the one.

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