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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!dkuug!diku!viggo
- From: viggo@diku.dk (Allan Kim Schougaard)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Bus Mouse Tester > not working > WORKING
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.125410.13582@odin.diku.dk>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 12:54:10 GMT
- References: <65804@hydra.gatech.EDU> <1992Aug17.234750.3244@odin.diku.dk> <1992Aug18.083336.12147@cheshire.oxy.edu>
- Sender: viggo@freja.diku.dk
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen
- Lines: 54
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- rafetmad@cheshire.oxy.edu (David Giller) writes:
-
- >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.
- >>
- >>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
-
- >>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.
-
- I have changed the setting to IRQ5 and... (wait for it) It works!!
- So MicroSoft BusMouse *does* work under Linux, and very well.
-
- When I change the speed to 10Mhz even the 'cat /dev/bm' workes, but at
- 40Mhz it doesn't (and I haven't a clue as to why not).
- The mouse testprogram takes a littel time to start but then keeps
- scrolling, action or no action. And ofcause X works.
-
- I also have a trackball on COM1, and before changing the IRQ on the
- BusMouse that didn't work either. Now it works too (!?!)
- But when using the mouse testprogram the program only displays new
- data when the ball is moved.
-
- The point is that I would hate to have X receiving and processing a
- lot of parcels saying "no movement". Can I check if this is the case?
- And if so, how can I change it ?
-
- But basicly I am Very Happy :-)
-
-
- Viggo@freja.dk
-