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From: rooij@mozart.cft.philips.nl (Guido van Rooij)
Subject: Re: Mouse problems again
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cobb@krazykat.engin.umich.edu (Paul Cobb) writes:


>	Okay, I broke down and went and bought a Logitech 3 button serial mouse.
>Plugged it in the 9 pin serial port . Set the Xconfig to "Logitech "/dev/com1".
>I'm using the pccons kernel and server from agate.berkeley.edu. The mouse moves
>but only about once a second. I tried changeing the baudrate and samplerate lines but they just seem to make it behave funny in a different way. What's my
>problem. Someone help me before I blow up the damn thing.
I think you either are using a new Xserver with the old patchkit, or an
old Xserver with the new patchkit. I had the same problem once. It is
due to the fact that an internal interface changed with the 0.2.0 patchkit.
So either install the new patchkit or get a newer Xerver.

>						Paul Cobb
>						Space Physics Research Lab
>						Univ. of Mich.
>						cobb@sprlj.sprl.umich.edu

-Guido