Subject: Re: 960122 GENERIC kernel mouse-handling bug...
To: None <port-alpha@NetBSD.ORG>
From: None <Chris_G_Demetriou@NIAGARA.NECTAR.CS.CMU.EDU>
List: port-alpha
Date: 01/30/1996 22:00:18
> I just added the following to the README_FIRST file of the 960122
> snapshot:
>
> NOTE: the kernels (and the GENERIC* kernel configs) supplied in the
> sources DO NOT include support for the mouse hardware that is in
> AlphaStations. The system will crash if you open /dev/mouse. To
> fix this, uncomment/add the pms0 line in/to the appropriate kernel
> config file and make yourself a new kernel. Thanks to Yoseff Francus
> for helping me realize that there was a problem.
I just updated that note to include:
To make pms.c compile, you will have to change uses of ISA_IPL_TTY and
ISA_IST_EDGE in that file to IPL_TTY and IST_EDGE, respectively.
*sigh*
chris