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From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: Microsoft Mouse driver for XFree [NetBSD 0.9]
Message-ID: <28n4cf$ce9@homer.cs.mcgill.ca>
Date: 3 Oct 93 18:07:11 GMT
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In article <28lt7o$77t@werple.apana.org.au>,
Andrew Herbert <andrew@werple.apana.org.au> wrote:
>lacoursj@dfw.paranet.com (Jeff Studman) writes:
>
>It sounds like your kernel config file (in /sys/arch/i386/conf) is slightly
>broken.  It should include a line similar to the following:
>
>device          mms0    at isa? port "IO_BMS1" tty irq 5 vector mmsintr
>
>
>Jumpy mice are symptomatic of a mouse device with a minor number of 0 rather
>than the 1 that is required for X servers.  Using MAKEDEV avoids this
>problem.


	The problem might very well  lie in XFree86, which supposedly
	assumed that Microsoft Mouse=="com?".  David Dawes noted
	this yesterday, and was kind enough to send me a patch that
	might very well take care of the problem.  As soon as I am 
	finished building NetBSD-current, I will start 	another build
	of XFree86, and see what happens


						Toodlepip!
						Marc 'em.
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