Re: [newbie] Recommend Serial Mouse instead of PS/2

2000-03-19 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Alan: Thanks so very much for the comment. Yes, that IRQ 12 was conflicting with other PnP IRQ's. It was driving the mouse and me nuts. Thanks so much. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net

Re: [newbie] Recommend Serial Mouse instead of PS/2

2000-03-19 Thread Jon Hunter
Difficult to say without sitting in front of your machine but a lot of bios will allow you to remove an IRQ from the pool. Maybe you can set IRQ 12 = ISA not pnp/pci Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear Alan: Thanks so very much for the comment. Yes, that IRQ 12 was conflicting with other PnP IRQ's.

[newbie] Recommend Serial Mouse instead of PS/2

2000-03-18 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: I have been using Linux for the past year, Mandrake for the past 6 months, Netscape 4.7 since Mandake 7.0 came out. This may not be true for others, but it has certainly proved true for me: Changing from PS/2 to Serial mouse has made all the difference. While using PS/2 mouse

Re: [newbie] Recommend Serial Mouse instead of PS/2

2000-03-18 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Benjamin.guess I've not been following this thread. I assume that you disabled the ps/2 mouse port in cmos when you made the change? The conflict must have been one concerning IRQ 12 which an enabled PS/2 port always takes. Did you know that quite a few folks have reported a problem with