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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA1453 ; Tue, 23 Feb 93 14:42:22 EST Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!caen!destroyer!cs.ubc.ca!uw-beaver!newsfeed.rice.edu!rice!news.Rice.edu!rich From: rich@Rice.edu (Richard Murphey) Subject: Re: [386bsd] Xfree, MS-Mouse and PDII In-Reply-To: lessen@axion.bt.co.uk's message of 17 Feb 93 14:21:03 GMT Message-ID: <RICH.93Feb17112359@omicron.Rice.edu> Sender: news@rice.edu (News) Reply-To: Rich@Rice.edu Organization: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University References: <1993Feb17.142103@axion.bt.co.uk> Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1993 17:23:59 GMT Lines: 23 In article <1993Feb17.142103@axion.bt.co.uk> lessen@axion.bt.co.uk (Lee Essen) writes: I have recently tried to install 'small_X11' which is just the server and an xterm client from XFree86. I used a mouse driver for a Microsoft Bus Mouse by Erik Forsberg, and I have an Orchid Pro-designer II (and a monitor capable of 1024x768 NI). My initial trials were done whilst using the sos-syscons package (I like the virtual consoles - and I know that they aren't available whilst using X). I didn't install the patches that came with the small_X11 tar file since it appeared that the 0.2 patchkit had already done it. There is a problem with the mouse...it will only move to it's new position after pressing a key on the keyboard! (It's a little bit difficult to use like that!) Is this a problem with sos-syscons, the mouse driver or what? The patchkit changes the way select() is handled in the kernel and requires that each driver be modified accordingly. Make sure that syscons, com and the mouse driver have all been updated to the new interface and it should fix this. Rich