Re: mouse and serial ports

[Vatiainen Heikki <hessu@cs.tut.fi>]

Hi,

Since you didn't tell us what you have already tried, please check these 
things. I'm sorry if this is redundant.

When you compiled your kernel, did you include the "Standard/generic serial 
support"? It can either be compiled in the kernel or as a module but you need 
it to get the mouse support.

Try command 'dmesg' so you can see the kernel's bootup messages and see if 
there are lines like these:

  Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial options enabled
  tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
  tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A

If you didn't see these lines, then try 'insmod serial' as root if you 
compiled the serial driver as a module.

If you have the serial driver, then check /etc/X11/XF86Config and try to 
locate the Pointer section that starts with a line like

  Section "Pointer"

After that there are lines that tell the protocol and device in use. I, for 
example have a cheap logitech 3 button mouse and the protocol and device lines 
look like this:

    Protocol    "MouseMan"
    Device      "/dev/mouse"

Where /dev/mouse is a symbolic link to ttyS0 (COM1). Try man XF86Config for 
more info about the pointer and other settings.

There's also XF86Setup program that comes with the 16 color SVGA server 
(package 'xserver-vga16') if you'd like to try a different program to make the 
XF86Config file.

You wrote:
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> I installed the packages. OK. I recompiled the Kernel to get free of unused
> drivers. OK. And now, I run XFree86 to configure X11. The problem, at this

You should try 'xf86config' or 'XF86Setup' to configure X.

> step, is that my mouse is not recognized (although a true MicroSoft mouse
> pluged on the serial port 1, fully recognized when DOS/WINDOWS is
> running).What can be done to check /dev/ttySx ? All that I tried has failed. 
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Heikki Vatiainen                  * hessu@cs.tut.fi
Tampere University of Technology  * http://www.cs.tut.fi/~hessu/
Tampere, Finland



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