Hummmm.

Is there a way of testing the mouse?

Since the mouse and keyboard reside on a SIO (Zilog) is it possible to
"grab" the port and view data from the port?

BTW what device is the keyboard and or the mouse connected to?

jam

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris" <talon16m@hotmail.com>
To: "John A. Maier" <johnam@kemper.org>; <port-pmax@netbsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 5:31 PM
Subject: Re: Of Mice and DECstation 500/240's...


>
> on 7/5/00 1:28 PM, John Maier at johnam@kemper.org wrote something like:
>
> >I have my DECstation churning along quite nicely and decided to being
> working > on X.
> > xinit will start X (twm works etc.) but the mice doesn't work!  The
> keyboard > works and during boot, the system check doesn't complain about
not
> finding the > mouse.
>
>     Try using startx to start a single X session or type xdm to start a
> multi-user login based system. (XDM can also be started at boot by
> /etc/rc.conf)
>
> > Of course if I disconnect the mouse and I do a power on boot, the POST
> > complains, so the system DOES see the mouse.
> > Am I missing something?
>
>     It's probably just that since this is a mildly hacked version of XF86,
> it could be looking for a mouse device that isn't there. If neither startx
> or xdm work, then there is a problem.
>
>
>     Chris
>
>
>
> P.S. I'm sure the other users on the list would appreciate you not posting
> HTML messages if possible.
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