From owner-freebsd-sparc Mon Jun 5 21:24:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from agnostic.union.cynic.net (24-29-157-20.nyc.rr.com [24.29.157.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48CBF37B55E for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 21:24:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjs@cynic.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by agnostic.union.cynic.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA08534; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 00:24:09 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: agnostic.union.cynic.net: cjs owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 00:24:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Curt Sampson X-Sender: cjs@agnostic.union.cynic.net To: Adam Cc: wonko@entropy.tmok.com, freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FW: Sun mice (fwd) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 3 Jun 2000, Adam wrote: > Thanks, hmm, are they really ps/2 or just the same shape? They're just the same shape. One possibility would be to use USB. You could plop a PCI USB card into one of the PCI Ultras, but your X server would then have to support that. Perhaps some of the NetBSD stuff could be ported over to help with that. A USB PC card should `just work' on a sparc (well, it's not unlikely you'd have to do some fairly trivial hacking, but maybe not), and NetBSD actually changes all mouse protocols to a common one in the kernel, which the XFree86 then uses. (This is how you can plug a USB/2 mouse into a running system and it just starts working in parallel with your PS/2 mouse.) But I know that, under NetBSD at least, we use a different X server for the Sun, so there's probably some work to be done there. And, of course, all this USB stuff is moot on an SS2. But again, many PS/2 mice will also now operate on a serial port, which an SS2 does have. Hmmm. (Personally, I really want to use my Sun-3 keyboards on my PCs. I'd even give up the wheel for that.) cjs -- Curt Sampson 917 532 4208 http://www.netbsd.org Human speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to make bears dance when we long to move the stars. --Gustave Flaubert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message