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- From: rafetmad@cheshire.oxy.edu (David Giller)
- Subject: Re: Bus Mouse Tester > not working
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.083336.12147@cheshire.oxy.edu>
- Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 90041
- References: <65804@hydra.gatech.EDU> <1992Aug17.234750.3244@odin.diku.dk>
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 08:33:36 GMT
- Lines: 56
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- viggo@diku.dk (Allan Kim Schougaard) wrote:
- >gt6698a@prism.gatech.EDU (Andrew Hobson) writes:
- >
- >>I have a bus mouse, but linux 97 patch 1 does not recognize it.
- >
- >Me too also not working. ;-(
- >
- >I have tried :
- >
- ># cat /dev/bm
- >cat: bm: Try again
-
- Actually, this is the proper behaviour.
-
- >And:
- >
- ># mouse Microsoft /dev/bm
- >Play with mouse. Press Ctrl-c to ...
- >{nothing happens}
- >Finished
-
- I've never tried it like that, but you might want to try it with
- 'mouse MouseSystems /dev/bm' or 'mouse BusMouse /dev/bm' although the
- mouse program really isn't written to recognize bus mice. I think I
- patched it once to get it to work with BusMouse (the code was there,
- just commented out). And you might run into the 'Try Again' problem.
- This is normal. The mouse isn't meant to be read by normal programs.
- You are supposed to read it 3 bytes at a time.
-
- >During boot Linux displays the message:
- >
- >Busmouse detected and installed.
- >
- >The jumpers are installed at IRQ3 port 02c8 (not sure about the port)
- >and the mouse workes perfectly in dos.
-
- Ah, here's a problem. Most mice are configured on IRQ5, and so
- the mouse driver assumes that. If you can recompile the kernel, you
- can change this (it is trivial, but you must recompile the kernel).
- I don't have any idea how to autodetect what IRQ the mouse is on.
-
- Another {ossibility is that you have one of the newer bus mice that
- are really hacked serial ports. I don't know what to say about
- this, except that using the setserial program may get you going.
-
- Also, Xconfig must say that the mouse is mousesystems or busmouse.
- microsoft and logitech won't work.
-
- -Dave
-
-
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