Subject: Re: Trouble with wscons/XFree
To: Benjamin Walkenhorst <krylon@krylon.netbsd.org>
From: Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/07/2003 08:59:13
Ar an 7ú lá de mí 8, scríobh Benjamin Walkenhorst :
> 1) I don't get the mouse to run. My XF86Config wants to use /dev/wsmouse,
> but this is apparently not configured; when I start XFree, and I move the
> mouse, it exits immediately, complaining about the mouse it can't
> find. How do I configure the mouse for wscons? Can I get the mouse wheel
> to work?
I use /dev/wsmouse0 in my XF86Config without any problems; /dev/wsmouse*
looks like this;
crw------- 1 root wheel 65, 0 Jun 9 00:28 /dev/wsmouse
crw------- 1 root wheel 49, 0 Jun 9 00:28 /dev/wsmouse0
crw------- 1 root wheel 49, 1 Jun 9 00:28 /dev/wsmouse1
crw------- 1 root wheel 49, 2 Jun 9 00:28 /dev/wsmouse2
crw------- 1 root wheel 49, 3 Jun 9 00:28 /dev/wsmouse3
> 2) After XFree exits, the wscons-screens are so *dark*, I cannot read
> them any more. Turning up monitor brightness to 100% makes it just
> readable, a restart also helps, but I am almost sure this is not the way
> it's supposed to work.
You'll need to patch some source to solve this issue, something along the
lines of what is done at
http://f15.aaacafe.ne.jp/~xiangyan/txt/smi_driver.c.diff.4.2.1.txt
would do it. Basically, it's a matter of finding the driver which is used
for your card, and changing any references to VGA_SR_MODE to VGA_SR_ALL
in that file.
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