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PostPosted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 4:26 pm    Post subject: sun mouse issues with 2.6.9 on ultra5 Reply with quote

Ive had much sucess configuring the atifb and the keyboard for 2.6.9 on my Ultra 5. However as I push towards X, a new problem emerges. Apparently there is a drastic change as to how the sun mouse is handeled between the 2.4 and 2.6 kernels. Everything runs fine in 2.4 with the items shown below. I am however confused as to how to configure for 2.6


The dmesg output on the 2.4 kernel will include the following lines....


PCIO serial driver version 1.54
su(mouse) at 0x1fff13062f8 (irq = 4,7ea) is a 16550A
Sun Mouse-Systems mouse driver version 1.00
su(kbd) at 0x1fff13083f8 (irq = 9,7e9) is a 16550A
Sun TYPE 5 keyboard detected without keyclick
SAB82532 serial driver version 1.65
ttyS00 at 0x1fff1400000 (irq = 12,7eb) is a SAB82532 V3.2
ttyS01 at 0x1fff1400040 (irq = 12,7eb) is a SAB82532 V3.2

<several lines later>


mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice


<several lines later>

sunmouse: Successfully adjusted to 1200 baud

*************************************************************




The mouse if configured in the xorg.conf file as


Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "Busmouse"

Option "Device" "/dev/sunmouse"


When using the 2.6.9 kernel there is no more /dev/sunmouse so x doesnt start.


the dmesg will show

mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
input: Sun Mouse on su/serio0




The kernel configs are as follows



--- Input Device Drivers
[*] Keyboards
< > AT keyboard support
<*> Sun Type 4 and Type 5 keyboard support
< > DECstation/VAXstation LK201/LK401 keyboard support
< > XT Keyboard support
< > Newton keyboard
[*] Mice
<M> PS/2 mouse
<M> Serial mouse
<M> DEC VSXXX-AA/GA mouse and VSXXX-AB tablet
[ ] Joysticks
[ ] Touchscreens
[*] Misc
<*> SPARC Speaker support
< > User level driver support




Since I know the mouse works just fine in 2.4 its not a hardware issue. Does anyone know if my configurations are right for the mouse to work in X with kernel 2.6.9

thanx

JR
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 4:43 pm    Post subject: sermouse modules in 2.6.9 Reply with quote

I forgot to add that typeing in the folllowing

modprobe sermouse


will yeild the following message in dmesg

input: Sun Mouse on su/serio0

where is su/serio0 and how would it be configured in xorg.conf


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PostPosted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 10:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

For me, I just do modprobe sermouse and then unplug the mouse out from the keyboard and then plug it back once the X starts to make it work.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 5:16 am    Post subject: modprobe sermouse Reply with quote

when configuring X, what device do you assign the pointer?

/dev/mouse
/dev/ps2aux

etc..

thanxs

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PostPosted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 4:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

You'll want to enable serial mice in the kernel. While the connectors on the keyboard and mouse look like PS/2 style connectors, they are actually serial.

As for X, you'll want to use the /dev/input/mice device, and IMPS/2 protocol.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 8:52 am    Post subject: Mouse works but keymap screwy on x Reply with quote

I made the configuration changes and modprobe'd sermouse. If I disconnect and reconnect the mouse after x starts then the mouse works.

Once X starts Im running into the Kepmap issue again. In run level 3 I made it go away by doing rc-update del keymap default /or boot.

when I go back to X I run into the problem again.

The question is....

On the Ultra5 running 2.6.9, what Keymap should we be using?

thanks much

JR
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 12:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You'll probably want your keyboard section to look something like this below(taken from http://dev.gentoo.org/~fmccor/docs/xorg/xorg.conf/xorg.conf.html) ;

Code:
Section "InputDevice"
  Identifier  "Keyboard0"
  Driver      "kbd"
  Option      "XkbModel"    "type5"
  Option      "XkbRules"    "xorg"
  Option      "XkbLayout"   "en_US"
  Option      "XkbGeometry" "sun(type5)"
EndSection
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 6:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

2.6.x mouse initialisation on Ultra 5 is broken....

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=149437

I submitted it as a bug/fix to the kernel developers some time ago, but as the fix isn't 100%, David S Miller didn't want to incorporate it until he'd thought about the problem more, (which is fair comment).
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