On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 07:58:21PM -0800, Fred Ramsing wrote:
> I've been having the same problem.  I am using an Intel Premiere/PCI ED
> motherboard.  This board support two PS/2 ports for keyboard and mouse,
> but there is only a big-DIN connector for the keyboard - hence the serial
> mouse.
> 
> According to Intel, there's a bug in the UART chip.  From the Intel
> website support pages:

> On Fri, 24 Jan 1997, Chris Pereira wrote:
> > I have set up K12ltsp-2.0.1 and sucessfully connected a client using a rom 
> > image for a 3c905tx  NIC and ps2 keyboard and mouse.  My problem is that I 
> > have many more old pc's with AT keyboards and serial mice connections.  So 
> > far I have been unsuccessful getting the serial mouse to work.  The client 
> > boots up to the login screen and the keyboard works but the mouse pointer 
> > does not move.  I have tried all the directions in the documentation:
> > 
> > 
> > [ws001]
> > XSERVER                        = auto
> > X_MOUSE_PROTOCOL    = "Microsoft"
> > X_MOUSE_DEVICE          = "/dev/ttyS0"
> > X_MOUSE_RESOLUTION  = 400
> > X_MOUSE_BUTTONS        = 2
> > X_MOUSE_EMULATE3BTN = Y
> > 
> > in my lts.conf with different protocols with different mice as well as 
> > /dev/ttyS1 all with the same result.  I've noticed that changes to the 
> > lts.conf take affect almost immediatly, is there some other service that 
> > needs to stopped and restarted before changes take affect.
> > If I can make these old PC's work it will mean an important step in the right 
> > direction on convincing people in this district that this is the future of 
> > technology in education.

I too have seen this. But it vanished when I compiled a custom kernel
and compiled in the following.

CONFIG_SERIAL=y
# CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOLE is not set
CONFIG_SERIAL_EXTENDED=y
# CONFIG_SERIAL_MANY_PORTS is not set
CONFIG_SERIAL_SHARE_IRQ=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_DETECT_IRQ=y

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Hans Ekbrand

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