Rafal,

Hmmm, a mouse driver doesn't sound to difficult to write, how
difficult would this be for a first-time device driver author?
I've had "write a device driver" on my list of things to do
for a few years (no computer engineering degrees here, only mechanical)
but never gotten around to it.  What information would I need to
have to get this done?

Robert


Rafal Boni wrote:

> In message <Pine.OSF.4.32.0202251656100.15084-100000@typhoon.ocis.temple.edu>,
> you write:
>
> -> The bootloader is working after setting the PROM variables, but how do I
> -> get NetBSD to boot into a "full" screen, not just a little "window" over
> -> the bluish background.
>
> The snide answer is "you write code to do it" 8-)
>
> The serious answer is "that isn't supported right now, as nobody's written
> the code to support it".  Also note that doing so would involve driving
> the display hardware, and there are no docs for a large subset of that
> hardware (only, AFAIK, for the lowest-end cards).
>
> -> Also whenever I hit certain keys (esc, arrow keys, F-keys) the kernel
> -> reboots!
>
> That's a known bug, but I think I have some info from others on the list
> as to what can be done to fix this.  Simply haven't had the time to check
> it out, though.
>
> -> Finally (this is probably the silliest question) once I get this stuff
> -> working, can I compile X?  I've heard that X 4.2.0 has a newport driver.
> -> (also, what is the correct netbsd-ish way of doing this)  Thanks.
>
> The problem with the X server is that there is no mouse/keyboard driver,
> so X is a pretty academic exercise without those.  Again, neither should
> be rocket science, but at the same time neither has been written.
>
> I have patches vs. NetBSD's xsrc which should allow you to build a complete
> X kit (server and all), but (again, due to lack of time) never got around
> to testing it -- lack of KB/mouse drivers also didn't help 8-)
>
> --rafal
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