On Fri, 1 Jan 1999, Kent West wrote: > > in X, and when I returned this morning, the mouse was dead. So, I killed > > the Xserver, restarted it. Nothing. Rebooted in Win95, which didn't pick > > up the mouse either. When I rebooted into Linux, gpm started as normal, > > You might try switching your mouse to the other serial port and see if > Win95 finds it, but when I've seen this behavior before, it was a dead > mouse, so you may have to replace it.
Well, I have a modem on ttyS1, which still works fine. The mouse I brought to work, and it worked on another PC. I tried a different mouse on my hamm box, which didn't work either, which points to a serial port problem. > Also, if your CMOS battery is weak/dead, your BIOS may have reverted to > turning off your serial port, although that doesn't really make sense > since the box was powered up when the mouse died. But maybe some glitch > turned off the port in CMOS, so I'd at least check it out. i've looked in the BIOS setup, and everything /appears/ to be ok, and when the kernel boots up it gives me the usual message about the serail ports. thanks for the help. regards, vinny -- Vincent Murphy | 2nd CompSci Student, UCC | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (086) 8397405 NT = Not Today