On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Michael L. Hitch wrote:

>   The problem is that a 5000/200 will hang when running with a serial
> console AND there is no mouse connected.  [The driver tries to
> initialize the mouse and probably is hanging waiting for the
> non-existent mouse to respond.] I'm fairly certain [I don't have a mouse
> on my 5000/200 to verify this] that it will function normally when a
> mouse is present. 

I verified this:  my 5000/200 now boots with a mouse hooked up.  :) 
(Hooray!)

>   This should not normally be a problem with the 3100, since there will
> either be a mouse connected, or a mouse loop-back connector, and the dc
> driver won't hang.

I can run the 10-25 snapshot on my 3100 without problems.  (Now if I could
only figure out why it likes to reboot when I don't have anything hooked
up to the serial console...)

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