OSR5 keyboard mouse problems

[Bertil]

Have just installed OSR 5.05m on a Dell Latitude XPi CD with Pentium 150 processor. Everything works fine except keyboard mouse.

If I configure tty1a for a Microsoft serial mouse it works fine, but I do not want to occupy my only COM-port.

How do I configure the keyboard mouse? What tty does my PS/2-port (round mouse-connector)have?

 

[apeasecpc]

This install shouldn't be that complicated. When you run the mouse install, so long as you choose one of the keyboard mouses (or is that mice? ) it should work (I recommend "Low Res Keyboard Mouse&quot. If this is not working the problem may be that you need to enable the PS/2 mouse port in the system bios, or you may have a problem with your system board or the mouse itself.

The keyboard mouse doesn't connect to a tty port, the device it uses is /dev/mouse/kb0 .

 

[Bertil]

Thanx for quick reply. I have done as you recommend, but when scologin tries to start I get error message "fatal server error e t c e t c"
I have also enabled the trackball in BIOS.

Anything else I can do??

 

[apeasecpc]

Did you completely remove the serial mouse configuration?

What do mean by "trackball" in the BIOS? Did you just say trackball because that's what your mouse is, or a laptop computer with a built in trackball?

One thing you could try is to hunt down an old DOS boot diskette and try to test the mouse from DOS.

 

[Bertil]

Thanks for your tips!

Yes, I completely removed the serial mouse before I tried to install the keyboard mouse.

The computer I am using is a laptop that has a built-in "trackball-type" mouse. This "trackball-mouse" is enabled in BIOS.

I will try to find a DOS boot diskette...

 

[apeasecpc]

Is it the built in trackball you are trying to get to work with UNIX, or are you trying to plug an external PS/2 mouse into the laptop's keyboard port?

The trackball might not actually be a PS/2 Keyboard Mouse. On an old laptop I have the internal trackball is connected through COM2 as a serial mouse.

 

[Bertil]

The most important thing with my efforts is to free my only COM-port (COM1). I need it for other purposes.

As the first choice, I would like to use the built-in trackball mouse. Second alternative is to use external mouse connected to the round PS/2-jack.

I found a DOS 6.22 boot diskette and booting from that, the trackball mouse works fine.

I have also tried to assign any mouse (internal or external)to tty2a/COM2 but have failed.

Finally, I give you the full error message when I try to configure a keyboard mouse. It reads:
"Open event driver failed Fatal server error Check mouse configuration".

 

[apeasecpc]

Ok the first thing you need to determine is whether the internal trackball is functioning as COM2 or something else. If it is, it may be that you need to install the second serial port in UNIX before it will detect the trackball. If it is not, you need to pull the docs for the laptop and determine what kind of interface it is using because it probably isn't PS/2.

It also may NOT be possible to use your external keyboard port to connect a PS/2 mouse. Again you will need to check the laptop documentation.

 

[Bertil]

I temporarily borrowed another desktop PC(other brand) and installed OSR5.05 on that. Bingo! Everything worked fine, INCLUDING KEYBOARD MOUSE!!

I noticed a major difference, however. Running "hwconfig" on the new machine there was a line saying:
"kbmouse 0x60-0x64 12 type: keyboard mouse".

THIS ONE NEVER SHOWS UP UN THE OLD MACHINE!!

How can I get this line into "hwconfig -hc" list? Which file is missing? Can I configure kbmouse manually?

 

[apeasecpc]

What makes you think your laptop trackball is supposed to be a keyboard mouse? I think your problem is that you are trying to configure it for the wrong mouse type.