Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 14:22:27 +0900 From: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp Subject: Re: psmintr: out of sync? Message-ID: <199910310522.OAA26286@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 29 Oct 1999 13:51:34 -0300." <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910291346121.30583-100000@thelab.hub.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910291346121.30583-100000@thelab.hub.org>
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>I just got my boss moved over to FreeBSD from Windows, and we're having a >terrible time with X and mice ... > >She has a PII system, and we've tried both a Logitech Mouseman and >MicroSoft Inteellimouse...we have her box hooked up through a console >switch, since, for now, she needs to shre her mouse/monitor/keyboard with >her old Microsoft machine... I cannot guarantee the correct operation of the psm driver if you use a console switch. There have been quite a number of console switch products and some of them are so dumb that they cut power when you switch between computers, others claim that they are clever enough to "emulate" MS IntelliMouse when they, in fact, always bogusly answer that your mouse is IntelliMouse, but does nothing to make it look like the one when passing mouse data to the host computer. [...] >But there doesn't appear to have been any resolution to the problem, or at >least none posted publicly... If you have a good old 2-button or 3-button Logitech Mouseman without a wheel, you may have better chance of using it with the console switch, provided that your console switch does not try to be half-smart. Because the Mouseman does not require wacky initialization or strange data format, there is a possibility that the console switch won't wreack a havoc. IntelliMouse uses a special initialization sequence and proprietary data format. Apparently the psm driver got confused about it when you switched between two computers using this particular console switch. You can use the flags 0x20 for the psm driver. This flag will direct the psm driver not to use any special initialization sequence and treat any PS/2 mouse as the standard 2- or 3-button mouse. Mouseman should behave like an ordinary 3-button mouse. IntelliMouse will look like a 2-button mouse; its wheel won't work and cannot be used as the middle button, though. device psm0 at isa? tty irq 12 flags 0x20 With this flag, the any mouse should work... >I've used FreeBSD/X with a switch before, but with older kernels, and have >never seen this... It depends on the console switch... This one must have been rather a harmless one. Kazu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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