Re: serial mouse not working
Hi Rafael!
On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Rafael Caetano dos Santos wrote:
> Is it possible to be a motherboard problem? Mine is a SiS (I forgot the
> model), with all those PCI, PnP, onboard adapters (sigh). But I guess
> this bears no problem with respect to serial ports. BTW, I've got a
> (real) modem running without problems under /dev/ttyS1.
Nah, it's probably not the board, I've got one myself and they're crummy but work. And since it is both a problem in X and with gpm, it might be you don't have a link between /dev/modem and /dev/ttyS0. Both X and gpm use /dev/modem out of the box.
root:~$ ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/mouse
should do it.
'Luck, AP
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