Subject: Re: Sun3/50 _&_ NetBSD-1.3.1
To: Hank <hank@black-hole.com>
From: Db <db@hypermax.net.au>
List: port-sun3
Date: 04/30/1998 13:21:26
Hank wrote:
> >Yes...it was. I >believe< it works as I've been inside the rodent (as_per
> >Sun3 archives notes on this) to replace a deadLED and such...and it appears OK
> >(certainly, both LEDs light now ;)
>
> UT OH! on a sun3 only one led should light! the other led is infrared,
> and should be invisiable to the naked eye!. If one led is red, and the
> other is not you should be okay.
>
> This might be what you ment to say, but from your post it sounds like you
> did the wrong thing, which could be very bad.
>
Sorry for the confusion ;^/ I tried to save a paragraph, and used the word
'light'in a figurative sense, not a visual one. In the original instance, the
>visible<
LED was going, but I ascertained the IR_LED was *not* working by using an
IR_Detector cell. So after replacing the IR_ LED & a resistor and rechecking
it was OK, I was left with my comment _certainly, both LEDs light now_ but I
didn't point out that I was talking both visible & invisible (which I wasn't
actually)
...more a case of light = running :)
> This does not explain why the mouse isn't appearing to the x server at
> all. (though you seem to have got help from that)
>
yep....the install_kernel is blind to mice :)
Cheers!
Db