Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 17:20:38 +0900 From: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> To: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>, rhh@ct.picker.com (Randall Hopper), nirva@ishiboo.com, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, sos@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp Subject: X10 Remote and moused Message-ID: <199810050820.RAA23154@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
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Back in June, X10 Remote support was added to `moused' in 3.0-CURRENT. Before we release 3.0, I think we had better add some comments on this in the man page for moused. (The current man page simply lists X10 Remote as a supported device. But there is no more details.) As I don't have X10 Remote here, I need some clarification on the following points before I try to brush up the man page. 1. PS/2 interface issue. The X10 Remote can be connected to the PS/2 mouse port as well as a serial port, right? As X10 Remote support in moused currently works on the serial port only, we need to state as such. Has anyone worked on adding support for X10 Remote on the PS/2 mouse port? (I certainly haven't, as I don't have the device.) 2. Pass through mode/Stand-alone mode I heard that the X10 Remote can work either in "pass-through" mode and in "stand-alone" mode. In the stand-alone mode, mouse-part of the device will generate mouse event data in the Microsoft 3-byte format. Remote -> COM1 -> moused In the pass-through mode, a serial mouse is connected to the X10 Remote device and data from the mouse is "passed through" to the serial port. serial mouse -> Remote -> COM1 -> moused What is not clear to me is: a) Whether the Remote itself also generates mouse event data in this mode as well. b) Whether any serial mouse can be connected to the Remote in this way. c) Whether the data from the mouse is passed to the serial port unmodified. Or, the Remote will repackage the data in the Microsoft format (I guess this is unlikely :-) The current X10 Remote support in moused assumes mouse data from the serial port is always in Microsoft format. This assumption breaks 1. if any mouse, including mice incompatible with Microsoft mice, can be connected to the remote and 2. if its data is passed to the serial port as is, unmodified. There will be more problems if 3. the Remote itself will generate mouse events too in the pass-through mode; data from the Remote is in the Microsoft format while data from the mouse can be in another! Is there any notes on supported mice in the X10 Remote manuals? And the last question is: d) As the X10 Remote can be connected to the PS/2 mouse port, I wonder if the following configuration is possible (although I don't know how this can work at all :-) serial mouse -> Remote -> PS/2 mouse port In any case, we had better state in the man page exactly how X10 Remote is supported in what configuration. Kazu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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