From owner-freebsd-sparc Tue Jun 6 8: 5:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from master.blink.com (master.blink.com [166.84.150.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FE5937B972 for ; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 08:05:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjs@cynic.net) Received: from fmh.fw.px.fulton.blink.com (fmh.fw.px.fulton.blink.com [166.84.150.183]) by master.blink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77C091372D; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 11:05:38 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 11:05:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Curt Sampson X-Sender: cjs@fmh.fw.eu.fulton.blink.com To: wonko@entropy.tmok.com Cc: bsdx@looksharp.net, freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FW: Sun mice (fwd) In-Reply-To: <200006061422.KAA00247@entropy.tmok.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Brian Hechinger wrote: > Curt Sampson drunkenly mumbled... > hmm, interesting, do you know off hand if Solaris supports serial mice (i know > it used to when it was SunOS4 since the old sun3 hardware had serial mice) Actually, the keyboard and mouse ports are still serial ports, at least on the SS20: zs0 at obio0 slot 0 offset 0x100000 level 12 softpri 6 zstty0 at zs0 channel 0 (console i/o) zstty1 at zs0 channel 1 zs1 at obio0 slot 0 offset 0x0 level 12 softpri 6 kbd0 at zs1 channel 0 ms0 at zs1 channel 1 The connector just has a different shape. You can use a type-3 mouse and keyboard on modern machines if you just build the right cable. cjs -- Curt Sampson 917 532 4208 http://www.netbsd.org Human speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to make bears dance when we long to move the stars. --Gustave Flaubert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message