From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 19 03:06:57 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: sparc64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFFE616A41F for ; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 03:06:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jrtanis@gmail.com) Received: from uproxy.gmail.com (uproxy.gmail.com [66.249.92.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2846943D49 for ; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 03:06:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jrtanis@gmail.com) Received: by uproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id o2so100259uge for ; Wed, 18 Jan 2006 19:06:55 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=GiqpbbRsVg8Mz53QguAK/1H03uKl6Ce9J2RZw41aoQLcXF5qCqzyJ4iswicugFrUCjAfCb/ZS4TnyLsu3aCcPrNUhZIek6AgvJX5wxT1uGWa1kK44fPMTJj9h0mkIPBddvsv3m+7z1ZmypsGrlkARQ4dwIurylgu4EBApDsZYB0= Received: by 10.49.10.20 with SMTP id n20mr4592nfi; Wed, 18 Jan 2006 19:06:55 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.48.216.10 with HTTP; Wed, 18 Jan 2006 19:06:55 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <65dcde740601181906n4cca3345n34c11b2cc95303a8@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 22:06:55 -0500 From: James Tanis Sender: jrtanis@gmail.com To: mdh In-Reply-To: <20060117023037.30631.qmail@web34007.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <200601162038.k0GKcaU1061083@www.freebsd.org> <20060117023037.30631.qmail@web34007.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Cc: Eric Smith , sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sparc64/91882: Ultra 10 mouse/keyboard X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 03:06:57 -0000 On 1/16/06, mdh wrote: > This PR can be safely closed, I've answered this > question and others like it on the sparc64 list many > times now, and a quick search of the list for type5 > mouse will bring up my posts containing a great wealth > of information on how to get this working, both with > and without moused. Seems like someone should be bugged to put this in a manpage, preferably under somewhere relevant for both the mouse daemon and xorg. Maybe I misinterpreted the meaning of "tier 1," but I was a little disappointed with the lack of sparc relevant man pages for (especially) more generic items like mice. I'm honestly not calling anybody's work deficient, much the opposite, sparc64 is a relatively young platform for FreeBSD. On the other hand, calling sparc64 a "tier 1" platform is a bit misleading, people are honestly going to expect the same spit and polish as they see w/ i386. If it's merely a lack of man hours, I'm sure one or two of us freeriders would be more than willing to update a manpage or two. > > I'm not sure why you looked for "sunmouse" - I've only > ever seen name this used by Linux. This is not a > problem, and the term "lack of drivers" is incorrect. > > I though I recalled sunmouse being present in /dev, but it could be my memory has blurred the lines and confused it with sysmouse. Actually.. I'm pretty sure its the xorgconfig program that mentions sunmouse. I'm 99.9% positive It is mentioned somewhere in FreeBSD (whether its a program or a manpage I'm unsure).. > It feels like this is a recurring question on a weekly > basis, I'd be more than willing to write a big ole > document on the subject if someone wants to stick it > into the handbook or FAQ or something to attempt to > curb these and make this a little bit easier for new > users. > I think anything would be great, its obviously a big enough concern to warrant it. -- James Tanis jtanis@pycoder.org http://pycoder.org