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From: tjohnson@researchsmp2.cc.vt.edu (Tommy Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc
Subject: OpenBSD/pmax on a decstation 5000/25
Date: 3 Jul 1997 19:21:14 GMT
Organization: Virginia Tech
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We have here a small herd of DecStation 5000/25s, on which we're
attempting to install OpenBSD 2.1, or -current (freshly cvs'ed
on July 3).  Actually the OS install went great...
The problem is when we try to use the console.

The problem is that the mouse and keyboard do strange things, apparently
during disk accesses, or when the machine is busy.  The mouse suddenly
wants to go up, and produces false mouse clicks.  The keyboard is less
confused, but shift keys (control, etc.) seem to get suck sometimes
(the keyboard seems fine under X though...).  The mouse problems seem
to be corrupted data, it never moves spontaneously, it just hicups when
its being moved.  (IE: login remotely, and no problems)

Very rarely, the machines have paniced, in remrunqueue (sorry, no
crashdump, and I didn't write down the exact error).

Any Ideas of how to fix it?

Thanks!

-Tom  "Please explain to me the scientific nature of the Wammie." -Scully
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