Originally to: Lawson Whitney
* lawson_whitney's head hit the keyboard and wrote:
>> I know that but I decided at the same time to change them them to
>> ttyS0/1. Result is still the same. Thinking about it, the time that
> the
>> mouse stopped working was when I removed my internal modem and
> replaced
>> it with a external (old modem melted after 4 years of hard work). I
> am
>> also grabbing 2.2.10 which is the last kernel that I know that the
> mouse
>> worked with.
>>
>>
>> I disabled the 16450 and enabled the second 16550A but making the
> ports
>> ttyS0/1 in the process as well. Still the same problem. The strange
> thing
>> is that during boot up, the mouse port speed (comm port) is set to
> 1200
>> but not by my config files, I even tried setting it to sp_vhigh but
> that
>> only affected the setserial not /proc/tty/driver/serial settings.
>>
> spd_vhi is an obsolete flag, left over from the time when the comm API
> had a maximum speed setting of 38400. If an app asks for 38400 and the
> flag is set, the port is set to 115200. If it asks for 1200, that is
> what it gets. Some application is opening that port at that speed,
> probably gpm or X. 1200 is normal speed for a mouse.
It turned out in the end that my hardware was too old for it, changed the
hardware and it worked :)
Sean
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