Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 19:23:42 +0900 From: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> To: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp Subject: Re: psm0 on laptops. Message-ID: <199901051023.TAA20647@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 05 Jan 1999 01:08:04 PST." <199901050908.BAA01739@dingo.cdrom.com> References: <199901050908.BAA01739@dingo.cdrom.com>
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>> Modern laptops with an `inbuilt' mouse as well as an external mouse >> port allow usage to be changed by simply "plugging in" a PS-2 mouse >> when running Windows. However, I noticed that FreeBSD 2.2.7 detects >> them both differently (generic PS/2 vs IntelliMouse) and hence if you >> boot up with one, you can't unplug and use the other. Is this "fixed" >> in -current or is there some other way to "make it work" ? > >You might be able to do it by using moused and restarting it when you >change mice. If that works, a little more tinkering might make it >practical to have it autodetect the change... Um, the psm driver does not currently support "hot plugging". If you swap PS/2 mice while the system is running, the psm driver will be confused and fail to work properly if the two mice doesn't talk the same protocol. I don't know how the W*ndows PS/2 mouse driver can detect that a new mouse has suddenly appeared at the PS/2 mouse port and switch to a different protocol. You see, both the internal PS/2 mouse/pointing device and the external device are wired to the same PS/2 mouse port... That said, you may experiment a bit as follows: The psm driver in 3.0-CURRENT has several new configuration flags, some of which may be useful. (Unfortunately they are not yet explained in the man page for psm(4) ;-< flags 0x200 With the above flag the psm driver will treat any PS/2 mouse as "generic PS/2" mouse and will use the standard PS/2 mouse protocol only. You should be able to use any PS/2 mouse, internal or external, in this configuration. However, you won't be able to use "wheel", "roller", or any other fancy features. Kazu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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