Subject: Re: Mouse problems on a Dell Laptop (PS/2 Trackball)
To: Michael C. Ibarra <ibarra@hawk.com>
From: Matthieu Herrb <matthieu@laas.fr>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/24/1998 07:43:56
You wrote (in your message from Wed 26)
> Hello:
>
> Well I've finally gotten my laptop to run X, but now my mouse seems to
> just not want to leave the left side of my screen. I am currently using
> PS/2 for my pointer, however I have tried _all_ of the PS/2 type
> possibilities. Has anyone had similiar problems with a laptop and trackball
> or with a PS2 mouse?
Did you try the 'BusMouse' protocol ? NetBSD's /dev/pms0 driver is
emulating the BusMouse protocol.
Also, double check that you have pms support compiled in your
kernel. It's not enabled by default in the GENERIC kernel.
Matthieu