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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!caen!usenet.coe.montana.edu!osyjm From: osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Is NetBSD pms driver working? Date: 29 Oct 1993 05:53:54 GMT Organization: Computer Science, MSU, Bozeman MT, 59717 Lines: 18 Message-ID: <2aqb5i$e6k@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <CFLFJt.LDG@cc.umontreal.ca> <1993Oct29.032457.23302@oz.plymouth.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: schizo.coe.montana.edu In article <1993Oct29.032457.23302@oz.plymouth.edu>, The Wizard of Oz <ted@oz.plymouth.edu> wrote: >>In NetBSD-0.9, is the pms (PS/2 mouse) driver working? >>I tried using it with a MouseSystems PC Mouse III and a plain 2 buttons >>micros*ft mouse with no go. I can't help you specifically, as I don't have a NetBSD machine with the pms driver on it, but under FreeBSD, you do have to do a cat from the pms block device to get it to work. ie, if you just try the pms device w/o having read (attempted to read) some data from the block device, then it acts like what you describe. Rampant speculation... -- Jaye Mathisen, COE Systems Manager (406) 994-4780 410 Roberts Hall,Dept. of Computer Science Montana State University,Bozeman MT 59717 osyjm@cs.montana.edu