doug@athens.iex.com (Doug Luecke) (02/24/90)
I'm trying to get X11 running on 386/ix on my AST 386, and I'm having a bear
of a time getting the mouse to work un 386/ix. I'm using the ATI VGA Wonder
with the built-in Microsoft Bus Mouse. I've also got a WD EtherCard Plus TP
board in there. I'm using V2.02 of 386/ix and V1.0 of 386/ix X11. The wierd
part about this is that if I just boot DOS without reconfiguring anything,
the mouse works fine. But when I try to run xinit, I get:
Unable to open mouse device "/dev/mouse"
Fatal server error: Mouse-specific initialization failed.
And then when I hit DEL, xinit dumps core!
I coded up a quick C program to open the device and print out errno when it
fails, and I get errno=6 (ENXIO). I suspect that the driver software is
having problems talking to the mouse board during the open. I took the
defaults of IRQ5 and port addresses 23c-23f for the mouse when I installed X,
and I've got the WD card on IRQ3 and port addresses 280-29f. There are no
conflicts for either the IRQ or the port addresses in my /etc/conf/cf.d/sdevice
file. I've even gone so far as to disable my parallel and serial ports, but
to no avail.
Has anyone else had this problem? Is this a known bug in the MS bus mouse
drivers shipped with X11, or what? Any suggestions?
Thanks,
doug
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