Subject: Re: [Fwd: X11 netbsd/sparc on SparcStation Voyager]
To: Lisa Green <lisa@mobiles.co.uk>
From: Jonathan O'Brien <obrien@gossamer.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 09/17/2001 06:04:21
On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Lisa Green wrote:

There was discussion recently on the list about how older revisions
of compact1 mice cause this error. I have verified that 370-1865-01
mice generate this error on my voyager with netbsd, whereas
370-1865-03 mice do not.

So if you don't have another mouse to swap it out with, you can
reference back to the email that shows what source to modify to
remove the line that prints the error.

> Hi,
>
> Does anyone have any experience of running NetBSD on Sun Voyager?
>
> I'm new to NetBSD (although have some experience of OpenBSD), and I'm
> finding it quite different to what I'm used to.
>
> I decided on NetBSD because it's pretty much the only up-to-date OS that
> will run on the Sun Voyager.
>
> I managed to get it installed (which is more than I can say for any of
> the Linux distros I tried), but I'm now stuck trying to get X running.
>
> Whenever I move the mouse, I get the following messages on screen (and
> the mouse pointer doesn't move). This happens whether you're in X or
> just in a normal csh shell.
>
> The messages I get on screen are like this:
>
> Oct 14 11:44:10 voyager /netbsd: ms0: input error (0xc47)
>
> If anyone has any ideas, they would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Louis
>