VP/ix DDAs under ESIX

[-Jeff Ellis]

In article <1920 at jwt.UUCP> john at jwt.UUCP (John Temples) writes:
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>I just installed VP/ix (version 1.1.0 -- the one that came with 386/ix version
>1.0.6) on my ESIX (rev. D) system.  Everything works fine, except I can no
>longer get my Logitech bus mouse to work as a DDA.  It worked fine under
>386/ix.  When VP/ix starts, it says "Unable to open generic device /dev/logi"
>The device was successfully created by sysadm ddainstall, and the permissions
>are ok.  Is there a trick to getting this to work?  Or do I need to buy a 
>newer version of VP/ix?

To use a DDA with VP/ix you need a vdi driver, ISC has this as part of its base
and AT&T gives this when you buy Simultask (AT&T's copy of VP/ix)
You can't use /dev/logi do to the fact ESIX does not have a generic mouse driver
with SYSV3.2.

>And while composing this message, I discovered that I can't switch to another
>virtual console from a VP/ix session...

Try "<ALT-SYSRQ> <Function Key>" just like changing VT's on ICS....

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