I just installed QNX Rtp v 6.1.0 on my PC.
When booting for the first time (using a
floppy disk), I was stuck in the video
settings screen with neither kbd nor mouse
working.
I started into text mode (by pressing F2)
and the kbd worked ok. Since then the system
boots to the login (640x480x16). I can log
in but the mouse still does not seem to work.
I seem not to be able to navigate the windows
via kbd.
How can I get the stuff running?
I’m using a standard mouse (Logitech M-CAA42)
on ser1 (3F8H/IRQ4) and an AT-keyboard with a
DIN connector.
Correct command line is:
/usr/photon/bin/devi-hirun -vvvPr msoft fd -d/dev/ser1
Ahh - thank you. Running the command results in the output
I pasted below. It looks quite ok for my unknowing eyes.
However, when I start photon, I still haven’t got any mouse
cursor.
What’s to do?
Thanks, Jens
Looking up msoft in module table
Looking up fd in module table
fd_parm: d
optarg: /dev/ser1
Resetting module fd
Opened a serial device
Resetting module msoft
Resetting module rel
Repeat the same experiment and move your mouse a little. Do you see any
output? If yes, driver works -you just have to check why it doesn’t work
with Photon. If no, please check if your serial driver is running (ask ls
/dev; do you see /dev/ser1 device?). If device does not exist, please check
your BIOS settings.
To check, why driver doesn’t work in Photon, try using keyboard
(Ctrl-Alt-Shift-Bkspace I guess) to close Photon, then type sloginfo and
find among screen output the command line that was used to start input
driver (“Start : /usr/photon/bin/devi-hirun …”) an compare it with
desired. If it is not correct, please do two things:
Send me this text
Create in /etc/config/trap/ directory file input.[your_host_name] and
write correct command line string in it:
kbd fd -d/dev/kbd msoft fd -d/dev/ser1
Because I don’t know exactly version of QNX you are using now, copy this
file to /etc/system/trap directory.
Correct command line is:
/usr/photon/bin/devi-hirun -vvvPr msoft fd -d/dev/ser1
Ahh - thank you. Running the command results in the output
I pasted below. It looks quite ok for my unknowing eyes.
However, when I start photon, I still haven’t got any mouse
cursor.
What’s to do?
Thanks, Jens
Looking up msoft in module table
Looking up fd in module table
fd_parm: d
optarg: /dev/ser1
Resetting module fd
Opened a serial device
Resetting module msoft
Resetting module rel
Adding the input.hostname files fixed the problem.
I can now begin to work with a fresh installation
of v6.1.0 .
Before that the system obviously didn’t even attempt
to start the mouse driver. sloginfo dumped this line:
/usr/photon/bin/devi-hirun kbd fd -d/dev/ser1
Hope my comments help you.
You’re great. I really hope someone from QNX goes over
the group and smoothes out such problems for the next
release.
.