Originally to: Richard Adams
* Richard Adams's head hit the keyboard and wrote:
>> Basically my ports are configured as ttyS2 and ttyS3, part of a
> historical
>> problem from Windows that I never changed.
>>
>> Until 6.3 my mouse was on ttyS3 and still is but for the life of me I
>> cannot get the darn thing to work :)
>>
>> During boot I get:
>> <6>Serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled
>> <6>ttyS02 at 0x03e8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
>> <6>ttyS03 at 0x02e8 (irq = 3) is a 16450
>> This is fine. gpm is configured to gpm -t ms -m /dev/mouse which is
> the
>> standard line that I had with 6.1. So far so good.
>>
>> I put the mouse into ttyS2 and change gpm and it works fine but ttyS3
>> doesn't. So I disabled the standard ttyS3 and configured a spare port
> on
>> another IO card as ttyS3 and same problem. I have tried to make it
> ttyS1
>> but still the same problem :(
>>
>> At this stage I am at a total loss as what to do.
>>
> It sounds to me to be one of the following.
> /dev/mouse is linked to /dev/ttyS2 i think this is the reason because
> you
> say it works.
/dev/mouse is linked to /dev/ttyS1 but when I tried switching the ports,
I killed GPM and ran it as gpm -t ms -m /dev/ttyS2 whch made it work.
using -m /dev/ttyS1(3) doesn't :(
> Or something else (Eg, a modem) is on the same irq.
> Check that with cat /proc/interrupts.
> If one changes comports then the symbolic link for mouse must be
> changed as
> well.
Done that and still no joy, no conflicts nothing. I am at my end here :)
Sean
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