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Date:      12 Feb 1995 09:42:20 -0500
From:      peterb@telerama.lm.com (Peter Berger)
Subject:   Re: Rebuild kernel for PS/2 MOUSE
Message-ID:  <3hl6oc$ec2@ivory.lm.com>
References:  <199502120145.UAA05097@dup.cs.fsu.edu>

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PS/2 mouse support is iffy in 2.0-R; with my ps/2 mouse kernel I've got
a 50/50 chance of being able to type after the autoconf stage.  Sometimes
things work fine, othertimes the keyboard just dies. Presumably this is
because some part of the kernel is getting confused by the sharing of
IO addresses; it seems totally nondeterministic.

I've just upgraded to the 021095 SNAP and haven't seen this problem yet,
but I've only been running for a day or so (have seen other problems though,
like corrupted filesystems -- hopefully that's just cruft happening from 
the library/binary switch...)

For what its worth, NetBSD 1.0 exhibited difficulty dealing with PS/2
mice in X-Windows, in a different way; keyboard response became sluggish
when using a PS/2 mouse kernel.

Go figure.  Good luck.
-- 
......................................................................
  Peter G. Berger, Esq.  Telerama Public Access Internet, Pittsburgh
Internet: peterb@telerama.lm.com Phone: 412/481-3505 Fax: 412/481-8568
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