Subject: Re: ms0: input error on SS5
To: None <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
From: Nick <nmanisca@vt.edu>
List: port-sparc
Date: 03/13/2001 15:46:11
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 03:38:47PM -0500, Nick wrote:
> I have an SS5 that runs NetBSD 1.5.  Today I went to re-install
> NetBSD from CDROM (as I have done a few times before).  At the 'ok'
> prompt I typed 'boot cdrom' and things started to go as planned.
> 
> As the kernel messages began the fly by here is what I saw:
> 
> <everything else omitted>
> cgsix0: attached to /dev/fb
> ms0: input error (0x847)
> ms0: input error (0xe867)
> ms0: input overrun
> .
> .
> .
> .
> 
> with similar ms0: lines going on forever.  This is new to me.
> Any ideas what is going wrong here?

Doh...
Well, after spending about 2 seconds looking through mailing list
archives I found how to 'get it to work.'

After I unplugged the mouse and plugged it back in, all worked well.
Guess the plug may not have been making good contact?

Nick