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 -- Hans Ekbrand
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