Re: OpenBSD/pmax on a decstation 5000/25

[George Robbins <grr@shandakor.tharsis.com>]

In article <5pgu3a$b3v$1@solaris.cc.vt.edu>, Tommy Johnson wrote:
>We have here a small herd of DecStation 5000/25s, on which we're
>attempting to install OpenBSD 2.1, or -current (freshly cvs'ed
>on July 3).  Actually the OS install went great...
>The problem is when we try to use the console.
>
>The problem is that the mouse and keyboard do strange things, apparently
>during disk accesses, or when the machine is busy.  The mouse suddenly
>wants to go up, and produces false mouse clicks.  The keyboard is less
>confused, but shift keys (control, etc.) seem to get suck sometimes
>(the keyboard seems fine under X though...).  The mouse problems seem
>to be corrupted data, it never moves spontaneously, it just hicups when
>its being moved.  (IE: login remotely, and no problems)
>
>Very rarely, the machines have paniced, in remrunqueue (sorry, no
>crashdump, and I didn't write down the exact error).

Use sendbug(1) to report as many of the problems as you can define as
apparently being separate, i.e. panic vs. mouse madness.  This system
works and there's a real effort to resolve problems pending in the bug
database.  Of couse bugs with good documentation and bugs with suggested
fixes/patches get fixed more quickly.

You should also subscribe to the misc@openbsd.org and bugs@openbsd.org
mailing lists.  The level of activity on the usenet newsgroup is minimal,
but there's more going on in the mailing list(s) and between developers
than meets the eye and there's always room for some people actively
installing/testing pmax or other ports and rooting out problems...

I've heard talk of serial port problems, probably due to an interrupt
screwup of some sort, which could also relate to the mouse problem you're
seeing and perhaps even the keyboard.

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