Finally my Sun Ultra 80 becomes useful as a desktop, thanks to the Microsoft optical USB mouse. The sun mechanical mouse was so difficult to use! The only thing I had to do was the following: (1) Find the mouse device in the /devices directory, which happens to be (in my case): /devices/pci@1f,4000/usb@5/mouse@2:mouse (2) Strip off the '/devices' and ':mouse', which gives: /pci@1f,4000/usb@5/mouse@2 (3) Add the following line to the /etc/system file: set consconfig:usb_ms_path="/pci@1f,4000/usb@5/mouse@2" (4) Thats It! No need to mess with the /usr/X11/etc/...OWconfig file... Hope this helps others who are using a mechanical mouse with their older Sun workstations! The Optical USB is SOOOOOO much smoother and more acurate.. The follwing document is a great USB primer for Solaris including how to configure a USB mouse and keyboard on an older system (Ultra XX series) Thanks! Ashok http://www.sun.com/desktop/whitepaper/Generic_Dual_FW_Whitepaper.pdf sc@dslextreme.com wrote: > Yes on both.. > > The USB card I am using is on the HCL. > > > >>have you checked the hcl for usb devices? >> >>did you search the archives? >> >> >> >>Super-User wrote: >> >>>Hi, >>> >>>I am trying to connect a USB mouse on a Sun Ultra 80. >>>I am using a Belkin USB card and a Microsoft mouse. >>>I see the device in the /devices/pci@4000/usb..... directory.. >>>It looks like the mouse has been properly configured. >>>But when I put in the path to the device in the >>>/usr/openwin/server/etc/OWconfig file, it gives an error while >>>starting S-windows (Xsun process)....complaining about the USB mouse. >>> >>>Has anyone been through this problem before?? >>> >>>Thanks >>>SC >>>_______________________________________________ >>>sunmanagers mailing list >>>sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org >>>http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Tue Oct 14 22:44:52 2003
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