rodent allergy

[George Robbins]

In article <1990Aug27.214141.27908 at wrl.dec.com> gringort at wsl.dec.com (Joel Gringorten) writes:
> 
> In article <13961 at cbmvax.commodore.com>, grr at cbmvax.commodore.com
> (George Robbins) writes:
> |> The current DEC direct catalog lists a puck/tablet (VSXXX-AB) as a
> |> DECsystem 5000 option.  Does anyone know if this also works on a
> |> DS3100?  
> 
> Yes.
> 
> The DEC tablet is currently supported as the X pointer device on the 
> DS3100/2100 and the DS5000 in Ultrix 3.1D and 4.0.  

OK, now how do I get it to work?  What happens (on a DS5000 w/Ultrix 4.0)
is that that power up diagnostics fail the keyboard test and if you bring
up the system, the tablet works to the extent that moving the puck will
move the X-cursor, but the buttons are about 99% dead.  Once in a while,
pressing a random sequence of buttons yields a single random event.

Is there some configuration step that is needed at the console prompt
level or some Ultrix configuration step that needs to be performed?

> ...						In order to access
> the 4th button on the pointer, you must start the server with the command
> line argument "-btn 4".  

This didn't seem to help - no buttons work.
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