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To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
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        yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp
Subject: Re: Who Caught My PS/2 mouse?! + unknown PCI bridge + DD mode 
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Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 12:11:35 +0900
From: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
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>sos@freebsd.org writes:
>> > > I'm using moused with a PS/2 mouse.  To get this to work, you'll need to
>> > > make another device in /dev using a different (than default) minor devic
>e
>> > > number to get the other block/non-blocking behavoir.
>> > 
>> > 	Thanks Louis, that's cool news!  And what is the actual
>> > 	minor No. for moused to work?
>> 
>> You should use minor 0 instead of minor 1 ...
>> It works just fine as has been for ages, maybe we should document this
>> somewhere, FAQ meister ??...
>
>We should modify moused to use select() and then all of them will work
>correctly. :)
>
>
>Nate

I tried the patch, to use select(), in PR bin/1695 and it worked
handsomely with `psm', `mse', and serial mice. 

Now we have two options:

a) modify `moused' to use `select()'

We need to 1) patch `moused'.  It makes `moused' work with not only
with `psm' but also with `mse'. Although not mentioned in this thread
of discussion, `mse' is also a non-blocking device and currently
doesn't work with `moused'. 

We don't need to update any documentation/FAQ in this case, I expect.

b) create blocking nodes

We need to 1) create a blokcing node each for `psm' and `mse', 2)
change `moused's built-in default of using `/dev/psm0' for the PS/2
mouse; it should now refer to the new blocking node, 3) and update
documentation/FAQ.

I prefer a) to b), because a) seems simpler.

Kazu