SUMMARY: SUCCESS!! Trying to connect USB Mouse on Ultra 80

From: Super-User (sc_at_dslextreme.com)
Date: 10/15/03

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To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org

    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
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