Re: serial mouse problem
On Sat, 2 Jan 1999, Vincent Murphy wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Jan 1999, Kent West wrote:
> > > in X, and when I returned this morning, the mouse was dead. So, I killed
> > > the Xserver, restarted it. Nothing. Rebooted in Win95, which didn't pick
> > > up the mouse either. When I rebooted into Linux, gpm started as normal,
> >
> > You might try switching your mouse to the other serial port and see if
> > Win95 finds it, but when I've seen this behavior before, it was a dead
> > mouse, so you may have to replace it.
>
> Well, I have a modem on ttyS1, which still works fine. The mouse I
> brought to work, and it worked on another PC. I tried a different mouse
> on my hamm box, which didn't work either, which points to a serial port
> problem.
>
> > Also, if your CMOS battery is weak/dead, your BIOS may have reverted to
> > turning off your serial port, although that doesn't really make sense
> > since the box was powered up when the mouse died. But maybe some glitch
> > turned off the port in CMOS, so I'd at least check it out.
>
> i've looked in the BIOS setup, and everything /appears/ to be ok, and when
> the kernel boots up it gives me the usual message about the serail ports.
If you haven't already, try moving the mouse to the port the modem is on
and move the modem off temporarily and see if you get your mouse back.
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