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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] quirk
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
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Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 01:14:02 -0400
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> What would cause /dev/draw/... to not appear on boot?

/rc/bin/termrc

		switch($mouseport){
		case ps2 ps2intellimouse 0 1 2
			aux/mouse $mouseport
			# parse vgasize into fields
			vgasize=`{echo $vgasize}
			if(! ~ $"monitor '' && ! ~ `{cat /dev/user} none)
				aux/vga -l $vgasize
			if(~ $accupoint 1)
				pipefile -dr /bin/aux/accupoint /dev/mouse
		}

> I ask, because I decided to try a trackball serial mouse with
> my TP 600E 9top; I changed mouseport=serial in the .ini, rebooted,
> and it's not there.  Thusly, no frame buffer.
> 
> I went back and forth one more time to make certain I
> wasn't seeing things.  It works using the keypad ps2; set it to
> serial: no frame buffer.
> 
> Thoughts?

use mouseport=0

russ