Good morning! I’ve recently installed 6.3 onto an SGI o2.. Yes, the hardware is all working properly; it was running Irix very happily until immediately before I installed OpenBSD.
I’ve hunted around and can’t seem to find an explanation of these two issues: 1. The keyboard is wacky most of the time – whichever key you hit last, repeats. So, if your username is “sam” and you type it fairly briskly and hit enter, you will successfully enter “sam”… and then the enter key will repeat until you tap some other key… If you hesitate after typing “sam”, the ‘m’ will repeat, etc. Needless to say, this makes the console challenging to use. There was no evidence of this behavior during installation. 2. When starting X (startx), the mouse is unresponsive. This lead me to dmesg, where I found this: (I’ve trimmed irrelevant entries) mkbc0 at macebus0 base 0x00320000 irq 5 pckbd0 at mkbc0 (kbd slot) wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard pms0 at mkbc0 (mouse slot) wsmouse0 at pms0 mux 0 mkbc_poll_cmd: send error mkbc_poll_cmd: send error mkbc_poll_cmd: send error mkbc_poll_cmd: send error mkbc_poll_cmd: send error mkbc_poll_cmd: send error mkbc_poll_cmd: send error pms0: disable error mkbc_poll_cmd: send error mkbc_poll_cmd: send error mkbc_poll_cmd: send error pms0: disable error mkbc_poll_cmd: send error mkbc_poll_cmd: send error mkbc_poll_cmd: send error pms0: disable error mkbc_poll_cmd: send error mkbc_poll_cmd: send error mkbc_poll_cmd: send error pms0: disable error mkbc_poll_cmd: send error mkbc_poll_cmd: send error mkbc_poll_cmd: send error mkbc_poll_cmd: send error pms0: disable error This seems to explain why X doesn’t see the mouse, but gives me no insight into why the mouse is failing. I did find one reference somewhere from around ’08 that indicated a cold boot could assist with something to do with the PS2 driver…. Cold booting makes no difference. Any insights?
