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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA1801 ; Tue, 23 Feb 93 14:58:53 EST Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!rpi!batcomputer!cornell!uw-beaver!newsfeed.rice.edu!rice!news.Rice.edu!rich From: rich@Rice.edu (Richard Murphey) Subject: Re: XFree 1.2 keyboard and busmouse? In-Reply-To: hissam@source.asset.com's message of Sat, 20 Feb 1993 05:46:29 GMT Message-ID: <RICH.93Feb20221619@omicron.Rice.edu> Sender: news@rice.edu (News) Reply-To: Rich@Rice.edu Organization: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University References: <1993Feb20.054629.23295@source.asset.com> Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1993 04:16:19 GMT Lines: 48 In article <1993Feb20.054629.23295@source.asset.com> hissam@source.asset.com (Scott A. Hissam) writes: group, I have XFree 1.2, a standard no frills keyboard and logitech 3button busmouse: questions: 1 X startx in 640x480 w/ 800x600 virtual OK but keyboard returns strange stuff I cannot type anything reasonable just garbage is returned Ack, I honestly have no idea, so I won't make any guesses. 2 what do i put after "BusMouse" in Xconfig, the server wants a device entry - which device shall I give for a busmouse - nothing fairly evident in /dev I am using the server-pccons.tar files, and the pre-compiled Kernel from agate.berkeley.edu gee - except that I cannot type and I have no mouse - everything works file :-) you need to recompile the kernel in order to add a busmouse driver. there are several available listed below. We currently have three drivers available by anonymous ftp: A port of Erik Forsberg's bus mouse driver for 386bsd was posted to comp.unix.bsd in Oct 91 by Sandi Donno sandi@uctcs.cs.uct.ac.za. It's available by anon ftp from kappa.rice.edu (128.42.4.7) in pub/ms-busmouse.tar.Z. A beta release of a logitech Bus Mouse driver written by Fred Cawthorne <fcawth@delphi.umd.edu> which supports XFree86 under 386bsd. It's on kappa.rice.edu in pub/logitech-busmouse-0.2.shar.Z. Rick Macklem <rick@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca> wrote a driver for the Logitech and ATI Inport Bus mice for use with 386bsd. There are patches to this driver by Eugene Stark <stark@sbcs.sunysb.edu> to support the Microsoft bus mouse. It's on kappa.rice.edu in pub/Macklem-busmouse.uu. Johan Solhed <Johan.Solhed@lu.erisoft.se> ported the Linux PS/2 mouse driver to 386BSD. It includes a PS/2 to Microsoft protocol converter in the driver so XFree86 understands the mouse events. 386bsd kernel binaries with bus mouse drivers are not available, but if someone were willing to help us test and support them it could be done. We can't without the hardware.