Re: serial mouse not working

[Rafael Caetano dos Santos]

Alexander Poslavsky writes:
> > 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

No, /dev/mouse is already a symlink to /dev/ttyS0.  I've already deleted
/dev/mouse and created it again.

bye 
Rafael Caetano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

serial mouse not working

[Rafael Caetano dos Santos]

Hello,

My brandless, 3-button serial mouse won't work under Linux, neither in the
console nor under X.  It works OK under Windows. I've been a Linux user
for about 3 years and I never had or heard of this kind of problem.  I
guess it should be a stupid mistake or something, but I can't see what is
it.

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.

At bootup, the kernel says:

Serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A

So it shouldn't be a IRQ conflict.
Also at bootup, setserial reports:

Configuring serial ports...done.
/dev/ttyS0 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
/dev/ttyS1 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A

It seems normal to me. And gpm runs happily, as if nothing were wrong, but
the mouse cursor never appears.

Neither does X 3.3.2.3 report any errors.  The mouse cursor is displayed
but doesn't move. When I kill X, it reports:

waiting for X server to shut down
Fatal server error:
Unable to set status of mouse fd (Interrupted system call)

Any suggestions

TIA,

bye 
Rafael Caetano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>