From owner-freebsd-current Sun Nov 10 08:25:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA17714 for current-outgoing; Sun, 10 Nov 1996 08:25:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA17702; Sun, 10 Nov 1996 08:25:33 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA16541; Sun, 10 Nov 1996 09:25:26 -0700 (MST) Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 09:25:26 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199611101625.JAA16541@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams To: current@freebsd.org CC: sos@freebsd.org Subject: New PS/2 mouse driver stalled Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have read the comments on the new syscons|ps/2 mouse driver bugs, but looking at Bruce's comments regarding the new syscons 'polling' behavior it looks like it wouldn't matter since it really requires a new 'combo' driver that differentiates between keyboard interrupts and mouse interrupts, which has been the 'goal' for a long time with no resolution. I believe the new driver is 'better' than the old driver, but I don't believe it will work any better with the syscons changes that folks are complaining about. The author of the new driver would like to work on it more, and has even provided a man-page but none of this matters until we get the syscons/mouse interaction resolved. I agree that syscons is within it's rights to poll the keyboard, but it means that the PS/2 driver will not work if I read Bruce's notes correctly. Nate ps. S'ren, is it possible to have the XT_KEYBOARD code turned into a flag for 2.2/2.1.6? This would allow ThinkPad owners to use the GENERIC boot floppy and not require any special boot floppy? I could provide the (simple) patch if necessary.