Logitech Bus Mouse and VP/ix 1.1.0

[Jonathan Bayer]

In article <364 at mjbtn.MFEE.TN.US>, root at mjbtn.MFEE.TN.US (Mark J. Bailey) writes:
> might not depending on my setup.  I assumed that because 2.3.1 used the
> mouse, VP/ix made use of that.

	It does.

  
> I followed the instructions to install my mouse.  I have a Logitech Bus
> mouse on interrupt vector 5.  I typed 'mkdev mouse' and selected option
> '6' for the Logitech Bus mouse.  Well, all went very well, and it relinked
> the kernel with no problems.  Then I rebooted my system (cold) and proceeded
> to use the 'usemouse' command to check it out.  It didn't work.  The mkdev
> prrogram created two device files in /dev/mouse, bus0 and vpix0.  They had
> major number 10 and minor numberS 0 and 1 respectively.  When I booted my
> system, no mention of the mouse appeared in the boot screen.  When I try to
> run vpix or usemouse, I get a "cannot open" error on the bus0 and vpix0 (for
> VP/ix).
> 

I don't know why, but I have the same problem.  I solve it by booting DOS
first, and running the mouse.com program which seems to initialize the
mouse.  Then I boot xenix and the mouse works fine.  

I spoke with SCO about this, and tried changing the interrupt from 5 to 4
(since my tape driver was also on 5).  No dice.  This is not the first
time I have had trouble with xenix recognizing devices on bootup.
SCO, where are you?

Jonathan Bayer
Intelligent Software Products, Inc.