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- From: beyer@utrtsc.dec.com (Peter Beyer)
- Subject: Re: Mouse/Kbd lock on Ultrix 4.3 & 5000/25
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.085601.9467@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- References: <MCONLON.93Jan7031647@holly.stat.ufl.edu>
- Distribution: comp.unix.ultrix
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 14:35:41 GMT
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- In article <MCONLON.93Jan7031647@holly.stat.ufl.edu>, mconlon@stat.ufl.edu (Mike Conlon) writes...
- >
- >We recently upgraded from Ultrix 4.2A to Ultrix 4.3 on our DECstations.
- >No problems with new kernels and devices on 3100's, 2100's, 500/125's,
- >but on the 5000/25's ...
- >
- >We boot and everything looks great, everything starts, X comes up
- >(we're running MIT X11R5 xdm and binaries with the Ultrix R4 Xws
- >Server), but the keyboard and mouse are locked. No response.
- >
- >We think the problem is either with the kernel config, or dev's.
- >If someone out there has a similar workigng configuration, we'd like to
- >get a copy of the kernel config file so we can check our options.
- >We're also unclear about exactly what command line arguments should
- >be given to MAKEDEV to generate an appropriate set of devices for the
- >5000/25's. Apparently we need something extra, as compared to the
- >other machines we manage.
- >
- >Any help would be greatly appreciated.
- >--
- >Michael Conlon
- >Department of Statistics
- >University of Florida
-
- You probably forgot to configure the access bus of the DECstation 5000/25,
- which connects mouse and keyboard. Part of my config file:
-
- device dti0 at ibus? vector dtiintr
- device scc0 at ibus? vector sccintr
-
- # MAKEDEV dti0 scc0 will generate the proper special files in /dev.
-
- /Peter
-
-
- Peter Beyer
- Windows, Graphics & Multimedia
- Digital Equipment b.v.
- beyer@utrtsc.enet.dec.com
- beyer@athena.uto.dec.com
-