From owner-freebsd-sparc Tue Jun 6 9:26:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from master.blink.com (master.blink.com [166.84.150.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE46D37B712 for ; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 09:26:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjs@cynic.net) Received: from fmh.fw.px.fulton.blink.com (fmh.fw.px.fulton.blink.com [166.84.150.183]) by master.blink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B026113739; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 12:26:31 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 12:26:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Curt Sampson X-Sender: cjs@fmh.fw.eu.fulton.blink.com To: wonko@entropy.tmok.com Cc: bsdx@looksharp.net, freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FW: Sun mice (fwd) In-Reply-To: <200006061615.MAA01420@entropy.tmok.com> 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 Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Brian Hechinger wrote: > but from what i see here, there are two serial buses... Right. The hardware, at any rate, looks to the OS as if it's a pair of Z8530 serial controllers, each with two ports. One Z8530 is a pair of serial ports, the other is the keyboard and mouse. (This was how you could kludge a 3/60 to have four serial ports--by removing the mouse and keyboard and doing some clever wiring.) > the serial ports > share one, and the kybd/mouse share the other, so in actuality, the only > difference is the connector that is hung off of it. Right. > interesting. so > theroretically serial mice should work regardless of the OS. the wheel > on the other hand.... Even the wheel should work fine. So long as your driver supports it. 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