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Re: X & Serial Ports



In article <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.95.961222014514.607E-100000@illusion.omen.com.au>, you wrote:
>Hi, any help on this problem would be appreciated.
>
>Upon booting up X with startx, the computer can no longer communicate with
>the /dev/cua3, which my modem is connected to.
>
>At this time, only a reboot seems to fix the problem.
>
>There is no lock file for the port, sl0 is still up but reports constant
>timeouts.  If I re run dip, nothing it sends gets to the modem.
>
>I do have cua1 on the same IRQ as the modem, but there is nothing
>connected to cua1.  This problem hasn't occured on any other debian
>distributions except this one (1.2)

Hmm, it's look like X is trying use /dev/cua[13] or a symbol link to one of
them. For instance, it might be that X is using /dev/mouse and the latter is
a symbol link to /dev/cua[13]. Check out your '/etc/X11/XF86Config' file to
see which devices are used

>
>Thanks in advance,
>Paul
>
>
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