Re: [X] why does X kill my modem?

[Bob Billson <kc2wz@intercall.net>]

On Thu, 21 Aug 1997, Tim Sailer wrote:
>> ttyS0 and ttyS2 are IRQ 3
>> ttyS1 and ttyS3 are IRQ 4
>
>This *will* be the problem. You have 2 sets of hardware sitting
>on the same irqs. This will cause confusion. With standard serial

The old story of telling someone 'you can't do it' when they don't know
they can't do it. :-)

I have this set up running under Linux for almost 2 years now and never
had problem--so long as I don't run X.  (Knock on silicon!) 

>ports, this will never work reliably. Can you set any of the ports
>to another irq?

I should be able to.  I'll give it a try and see what happens.

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