On 3/18/07, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote:
> On my laptop I have a Plan 9 partition and Linux partition. When I
> boot the Plan9 partition natively, everything is fine. When I try to
> boot the Plan9 partition from within qemu a few things mess up, but
> the one I can't seem to fix is the mouse. The mouse goes all crazy,
> jumping around and eventually banishing itself offscreen. I've tried
> all sorts of variations of commands sent to mousectl, but none of them
> seem to fix it. I don't remembering having this problem when I boot
> Plan 9 images installed within qemu. Anybody else run into this or
> have any ideas on how to fix?

you probably need to set mouseport=ps2
instead of mouseport=ps2intellimouse in plan9.ini.
or something like that -- plan 9 and qemu certainly
disagree about what the protocol is.

russ

> the one I can't seem to fix is the mouse. The mouse goes all crazy,
> jumping around and eventually banishing itself offscreen. I've tried
> all sorts of variations of commands sent to mousectl, but none of them

i've seen that effect recently with a ps/2 mouse under plan 9 proper.
i haven't narrowed it down.

On 3/19/07, Russ Cox wrote:
>
> you probably need to set mouseport=ps2
> instead of mouseport=ps2intellimouse in plan9.ini.
> or something like that -- plan 9 and qemu certainly
> disagree about what the protocol is.
>

mouseport is ps2, I'll try and free up some cycles to dig into it this
week and see if I can figure out what's going on.

-eric