From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from duke.felloff.net ([216.126.196.34]) by ur; Wed Jun 29 11:49:13 EDT 2016 Message-ID: <33360206290d8284b8a53a1367b08c97@felloff.net> Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2016 17:49:05 +0200 From: cinap_lenrek@felloff.net To: 9front@9front.org Subject: Re: [9front] Hardware woes In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-ID: <9front.9front.org> List-Help: X-Glyph: ➈ X-Bullshit: extensible structured high-performance rich-client markup-aware layer touching would indeed produce tons of noise. thats why i suggested you press a button in an attept to produce a single packet response. but i have no idea what your computer is like. there might not even be physical buttons anymore. your suspicion that it is in the wrong mode is plausible... the pc mouse driver is not aware of any synaptic protocols. why the bios set it to non-ps2 emulation mode is the question. yes, i8042auxcmd() sends a raw byte to the mouse. no, there is no driver to write the aux port from userspace, tho you could make one with addarchfile() and writing a functions. nusb/ether supports some chips as well as generic usb ethernet devices, but i cannot guarantee if they will work. no real ethernet sucks, as this also means it will be impossible to pxe boot this machine (very convenient for writing drivers). good luck. -- cinap