Subject: Re: Scrolling Mice crash XdecNetBSD
To: Einar Karttunen <ekarttun@cs.helsinki.fi>
From: Michiel Buddingh' <ajuin@stack.nl>
List: port-alpha
Date: 03/10/2005 23:00:11
Einar Karttunen <ekarttun@cs.helsinki.fi> writes:

> On 10.03 12:44, Michiel Buddingh' wrote:
>> [ snip scrolly mouse problems ]
>
> I am able to produce the same with a bare 2.0 install on an
> Alphastation 255 with PBXGB-AA graphics card.
>
> I don't have a solution, but didn't have time to investigate the problem.
> Please tell if you find a solution.

XFree86 works flawlessly with both the mouse and the PBXGB-CA.
Performance seems a lot better too than the XdecNetBSD server (which I
persume uses a framebuffer of some sort?) although I've not tested it
with anything more daunting than twm.

The disadvantage is that XFree86 seems to require access to /dev/mem
or kmem, and therefore securelevel 0...

-- 
mvg,
Michiel