Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 15:00:18 +0200 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely5.cicely.de> To: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mouse on a Noname Message-ID: <20020703130018.GW70344@cicely5.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <afuoqp$2and$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> References: <001701c221c1$fe261ab0$9600000a@tamama> <15649.40544.867493.419695@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <3D22BEEC.D129C05A@yahoo.de> <afuoqp$2and$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de>
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On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 11:57:13AM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > 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. PC cables are usually one of two different pinouts. NoName uses the (much) less often used one. If you just took a random PC cable it's most likely wrong. > 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. The boards were manufactured for the OEM market were it doesn't matter. -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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