Let me step back for a moment and elaborate...

System Specs:
-5000/240
-PMAGB-AB
-"Hockey Puck" mouse (connected the POST doesn't complain, disconnected the
POST gives the '?'
-LK-201 keyboard,  worked fine in X ... till I dropped it :-( but I have a
spare :-)
-64Megs
-NetBSD 1.4.2

there is a symlink from mouse -> fb0

I boot from serial port B via serial console.

I think I'm going to get 1.5pre and see if it works better, but if anyone
thinks of a way I can test the mouse, let me know.

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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