In your email to me, Bob Billson, you wrote: > > Hi all... > > Oh no! He's back with another problem. :-) > > This one has me really puzzled. When I run X, I can't dial out with my > modem. Until recently, I didn't run X very much so I pretty much forgot > about the problem. Now I want to start using X more so the problem needs > to be solved. > > My machine is a 486/133 (AMD's fast 486 chip) with VLB bus. It has 4 > serial ports (ttyS0 to S3). ttyS0 and ttyS1 are 16450 UARTs on the > floppy/hard drive controller. ttyS2 and ttyS3 are 16550 UARTs on a > separate card. My system is configured like this: > > ttyS0 serial mouse > ttyS1 unused > ttyS2 X10 controller (unused most of the time) > ttyS3 modem (USR 33.6, external) > > The modem is on ttyS3 to avoid IRQ conflicts with the mouse. I use mgetty > and run diald (v1.16.4) to bring up the connection to my ISP. I can also > use minicom to dialup local BBSs, etc. This all works very well when X > isn't running, so I know it isn't a hardware problem.
What IRQs are you using for all these? If you are sharing 3 and 4 between 3 devices, that could be the problem. Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps Madness takes its toll... Please have exact change! ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
