Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 11:57:13 +0000 (UTC) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mouse on a Noname Message-ID: <afuoqp$2and$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> References: <001701c221c1$fe261ab0$9600000a@tamama> <15649.40544.867493.419695@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <3D22BEEC.D129C05A@yahoo.de>
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Falko Meyer <wds_de@yahoo.de> wrote: > > > At boot it already complains that the mouse is not present. > I think "at boot" should read "at SRM initialisation". SRM only checks for a PS/2 mouse. The complaint is harmless. Using a serial mouse is entirely within the domain of FreeBSD. > A longer time ago I read something about non standard serial ports on > noname and that this chapter in the handbook would be very obscure. This probably refers to the pin-out of the on-board connectors, but there is no standard for these in the PC world either. > Maybe one needs special cables to connect the board with the > connector Obviously you need ones that go with the board pin-out. > and I have standard PC ones. No such thing. Since the board pin-out is documented in section 2.2.2.16 of the AXPpci33 manual, you can easily verify if the cable is correct, check out alternative cables, or solder your own. http://www.linuxalpha.org/docs/pci33dg.pdf -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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