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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] qemu mouse
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:01:55 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ee9e417a0703191101jaf1b8b9v96194928a76e8f55@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a4e6962a0703181054x5e06e81en7eb5f6ea7e2d3114@mail.gmail.com>

On 3/18/07, Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> wrote:
> On my laptop I have a Plan 9 partition and Linux partition.  When I
> boot the Plan9 partition natively, everything is fine.  When I try to
> boot the Plan9 partition from within qemu a few things mess up, but
> the one I can't seem to fix is the mouse.  The mouse goes all crazy,
> jumping around and eventually banishing itself offscreen.  I've tried
> all sorts of variations of commands sent to mousectl, but none of them
> seem to fix it.  I don't remembering having this problem when I boot
> Plan 9 images installed within qemu.  Anybody else run into this or
> have any  ideas on how to fix?

you probably need to set mouseport=ps2
instead of mouseport=ps2intellimouse in plan9.ini.
or something like that -- plan 9 and qemu certainly
disagree about what the protocol is.

russ


  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-19 18:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-18 17:54 Eric Van Hensbergen
2007-03-19 18:01 ` Russ Cox [this message]
2007-03-20 16:09   ` Charles Forsyth
2007-03-20 17:54   ` Eric Van Hensbergen

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