Very Computer

Slackware 1.1.1 and a new video card at the same time (I changed two
things at once - dumb!). Anyway, I get the "device or resource busy" or
the "ms_init: invalid parameter" message, depending on teh driver I try.
The Inport busmouse is detected and reported at boot time. The mosue is
on IRQ 5, set using the DOS install program, and it works fine under
OS/2.

So, just a detailed report on the busmouse.h setup, the mouse INSTALL
settings, whatever...this is making me crazy! Until I get the kernel to
deal with the mouse, I can't move on to trying out the X Server, and I
need that quite soon!

Apologies for asking; I really *have* read every FAQ/HOWTO I could find.

Also, I'm getting a "selected partition not formatted" from the OS/2
Boot Manager, preventing me from booting Linux of the hard disk. Boots
fine off the floppy the Slackware install put together for me - is this
related?
  Wayne
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What I say is from me only. I try to be accurate, but I make mistakes: sorry.

Be sure to have it configured as Logitech busmouse. The hell knows, why ATI
doesn`t use its own format anymore, that tokk me some hours and
finally an
grep "mouse" faq* (It *IS* in there ... Hard to find though...)

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Steffen Neumann                      Computer science is the dangerous try

I had the same problem getting an ATI Mach8 card's mouse up and running.
Same messages and so on...finally, making a new kernel pulled me out of
the mud. I had to turn on the ATI busmouse support in the kernel config.
Don't let the "Inport busmouse detected.." message mislead you - you'll
have to build a new kernel.

Renee
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Renee Rober, Wikingerstr. 4, D-24143 Kiel +49 431 732912

I've got the problem to make my mouse run under X too. I just installed
Slackware 1.1.0 with XFree86 2.0 and am using an ATI Graphics Vantage with
busmouse. I removed ``selection'' from /etc/rc, recompiled the kernel with
correct IRQ (I know that I have to set the IRQ in busmouse.h to 9 when
DOS--program says IRQ 2 which is default for the mouse), linked /dev/mouse to
/dev/bmousems (ATI's busmouse should be 100% compatibel to MS busmice) and
tried all lines in Xconfig I could imagine:

busmouse [tab] "/dev/mouse"
busmouse [tab] "/dev/bmousems"
BusMouse [tab] "/dev/mouse"
microsoft [tab] "/dev/mouse"
microsoft [tab] "/dev/bmousems"

The only result was that X started with an unmovable mouse pointer.  If anyone
had an idea what I could do in addition, I would be very thankful for his help.

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