[rescue] Scroll wheel mouse on Ultra60 ?

[Curtis H. Wilbar Jr.]

Joshua Boyd wrote:
> On Mar 9, 2008, at 3:46 PM, Curtis H. Wilbar Jr. wrote:
>
>   
>> Was wondering if there is a way to get a scroll wheel mouse  
>> operating on a U60.
>>
>> Ideas I had:
>>
>> 1. USB (I did install an IOGear GIF320 firewire/USB combo card)
>> 2. using the Sun interface converter (I have one)
>>
>> On idea 1, how do you tell Solaris' X server to get the mouse  
>> events from USB ?
>>     
>
> Rumor has it that this just works for Solaris 10.
>   

Making Solaris 10 looking more attractive by the minute :-) (not that
it wasn't anyway)
>   
>> On idea 2, will the firmware in the interface converter pass along  
>> scroll wheel events ?
>>
>> On either idea, can Solaris' X server respond to scroll wheel events ?
>>     
>
> Rumor also has it that this just works for Solaris 10.
>   

but has anyone here done it ?  rumor and fact are sometimes separated by
great distances.
> I guess I will have to try attaching a USB mouse and find out if  
> rumor is true.
>
>   
do let me know...  I'd guess if it can be made to work in Solaris 8 or
9 it may require more hoop jumping.
> BTW, have you confirmed that that IOGear cards works correctly  
> otherwise?  I'm not trying to throw doubt on it, I just want to know  
> if this is one I should add to my list of cards to look for, since  
> getting non-Via cards has been a bit tricky (not impossible, but  
> still tricky).
>
>   
I selected the IOGear card based on a compatability table I find on sun.com.
It might have been user reported to work... but there were not many listed
as working.... so I shopped ebay off of that list and found the GUF320.  As
I recall from installing it, it has one Ali chip that handles all functions.

My dmesg shows:

Mar  8 15:21:50 delenn usba10: [ID 593373 kern.info] 
/pci at 1f,4000/usb at 2,3 (usba10_ehci0): ehci_init_ctlr: No SOF's have started
Mar  8 15:21:50 delenn pcipsy: [ID 370704 kern.info] PCI-device: usb at 2, 
ohci0
Mar  8 15:21:50 delenn genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] ohci0 is 
/pci at 1f,4000/usb at 2
Mar  8 15:21:50 delenn pcipsy: [ID 370704 kern.info] PCI-device: 
usb at 2,1, ohci1
Mar  8 15:21:50 delenn genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] ohci1 is 
/pci at 1f,4000/usb at 2,1
Mar  8 15:21:50 delenn pcipsy: [ID 370704 kern.info] PCI-device: 
usb at 2,2, ohci2
Mar  8 15:21:50 delenn genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] ohci2 is 
/pci at 1f,4000/usb at 2,2

I see nothing in dmesg or prtconf -D regarding the firewire.... maybe 
Solaris 8
just doesn't have any support for that.
>> Currently running Solaris 8, but looking to move it to 9 or 10.
>>     
>
> For older than Solaris 10, try this:
> http://www.bolthole.com/solaris/drivers/usb-usbsm.html
>   

Thanks... I'll keep that link... but I'll probably move to 10.

should I decide not to though.. I've got a place to start :-)

-- Curt

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