Re: Serial mouse config

["Mumia W." <mumia.w.18.spam+nospam@earthlink.net>]

On 09/18/2006 08:52 PM, Andre Perrotta wrote:
> Sorry, I forgot to write down the subject
> Sorry....
>
>
> Hi, I'm trying to get a serial mouse to work but haven't had any sucess.
>
> It is conected to /dev/ttyS0
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> but when I do:
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> cat /dev/ttyS0
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> it doesn't responds to my mouse actions
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> I'm sure it is /dev/ttyS0 cause it used to work with earlier dists i had
> installed in my computer
>
> I'm running Demudi 1.2.1 with the 2.6-multimedia kernel
>
>
> Can anyone help me ?
>
> thanks...

Do a "dmesg | grep -i serial" to see if the serial driver was loaded.

Also do "grep serial /proc/ioports"; if it's using 03f8-03ff, then the 
serial driver should be available on /dev/ttyS0.

Note, I know nothing about Demudi.