Firstly, apologies to Pork E...I should've qualified the request for BIOS#
by stating something like "If you have an older board (ie; not a new
fangled thing that won't let prying fingers into it's BIOS :)...',
however, the revelation you're using a laptop, has thrown further
disparity (in my mind) about finding a common thread here...I think the
pain in my brain became much worse at reading this, but it is rather
interesting nonetheless.....
Okay..seeing as I asked, here's my hardware specs at present...from BIOS
up..;
Award Modular BIOS ver.4.51PG + PnP BIOS extension v1.0A
[bios #] 06/21/96-i430VX-2A59Ht5BC-00 (<- -00 suffix is bad karma)
The bios identifies the CPU as :: 6x86-PR166+ 133Mhz
My 2.1.91 kernel says :: CPU0: Cyrix 6x86 2x Core/Bus Clock stepping 17
(other dmesg dross..)
SMP motherboard not detected. Using dummy APIC emulation.
Starting kswapd v 1.5
Sound initialization started
<ESS ES1688 AudioDrive (rev 11) (3.1)> at 0x220 irq 7 dma 1,5
Sound initialization complete
loop: registered device at major 7
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 2.12
PIIX3: IDE controller on PCI bus 0 function 57
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I7,P-1) -> -1
PIIX3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x9000-0x9007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x9008-0x900f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
hda: ST31270A, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: ST31270A, 1223MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=621/64/63
aha152x: processing commandline: ok
aha152x: BIOS test: passed, detected 1 controller(s)
aha152x0: vital data: PORTBASE=0x340, IRQ=11, SCSI ID=7,
reconnect=enabled, pari
ty=enabled, synchronous=disabled, delay=100, extended translation=disabled
aha152x: trying software interrupt, ok.
scsi0 : Adaptec 152x SCSI driver; $Revision: 1.7 scsi : 1 host.
Vendor: CONNER Model: CFA540S Rev: 090
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Vendor: QUANTUM Model: LPS270S Rev: 5900
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
Vendor: NEC Model: CD-ROM DRIVE:222 Rev: 3.0k
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 100 Rev: D.09
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi removable disk sdc at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0
scsi : detected 3 SCSI disks total.
SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors=1056708 [515 MB] [0.5GB]
SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 528808 [258 MB] [0.3 GB]
SCSI device sdc: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 196608 [96 MB] [0.1 GB]
sdc: Write Protect is off
PPP: version 2.3.3 (demand dialling)TCP compression code copyright 1989
Regents of the University of California
PPP line discipline registered.
ne.c:v1.10 9/23/94 Donald Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x300: 00 00 e8 3a 89 27
eth0: NE2000 found at 0x300, using IRQ 10.
Partition check:
sda: sda1
sdb: sdb1 sdb2
sdc: sdc1
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Starting kmod
Freeing unused kernel memory: 32k freed
Adding Swap: 130748k swap-space (priority -1)
Swansea University Computer Society IPX 0.38 for NET3.037
IPX Portions Copyright (c) 1995 Caldera, Inc.
Serial driver version 4.24 with no serial options enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
...hmmm. Setserial returns this;
/dev/cua0, Line 0, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4
Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0
closing_wait: 3000, closing_wait2: infinte
Flags: spd_normal skip_test
/dev/cua1, Line 1, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x02f8, IRQ: 3
Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0
closing_wait: 3000, closing_wait2: infinte
Flags: spd_normal skip_test
..and my modem is an external dynalink 14218vqe, so the only way it has a
jumper, is when I come into my room and toss my woollen vest on it (^8
The only other polemical (here..I'm guessing ;), is the perhaps BIOS
itself...although in 3 months, I figure I've covered just about all the
permutations of settings possible (including the 1,427 combinations that
will stop it booting at all ;)
I can't think of any other relevant data to put to this problem, (make me
wiser..I'm prepared to sit down and transcribe all my bios setting if
someone thinks it might be informative;), or supply any other data per
request to nut this out.
I know...it might be un-nuttable, in which case I have two ideas;
1> get a new m'board, and stick this one in a trashy windoze box.
or
2> build a little bit of logic (like a joystick autofire), stuff it in the
mouse, put a little switch in it, and turn the switch on when I want to
leave the machine, so the circuit can move the mouse a little left, then a
little right at half minute intervals...(in hardware I can do this in a
hour....I've been at the software for 3 MONTHS now will no result, I ask
you..;)
OH!!!..nearly forgot...my mouse itself? It's a fabulous thing bought from
'Boutique_de_Kmart' for less than a box of floppies..so it's nothing
esoteric nor particularly good looking. I have, however, tried mice of all
sorts borrowed from friends...$2.95 mouse or $79.95 mouse.
The problem remains indescriminate of the quality of the vermin.
I'm now going to do exploratory surgery on my own brain, to relieve the
pain caused by trying to think of what a laptop has in common with this
junk in front of me demonstrating the same fault (sigh)
cheers
db
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