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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!ee.und.ac.za!ford.ee.up.ac.za!babel.ee.up.ac.za!pose-rh From: pose-rh@babel.ee.up.ac.za Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Mouse problems Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1993 16:36:03 GMT Organization: Faculty of Engineering, University of Pretoria Lines: 59 Message-ID: <pose-rh.63.2CC568F3@babel.ee.up.ac.za> NNTP-Posting-Host: megabang.ee.up.ac.za Summary: FreeBSD struggles to open comports Keywords: com, sio Hi all ! I've had several problems with getting my mouse to work so that I can get XFree86 to run. To give you an idea of my setup : A 486-33 SX with A aha1542b scusibus, two com ports, one busmouse interface, a western digital card, a CLGD5210 card with 512k videoram, and 8 Mb of normal RAM. Here's my problem : I cannot get my mouse to be read by any software - it seems as though it can't open the com ports. Here's what I've tried : cat tty00 cat tty01 cat tty02 I have disabled the bus mouse interface via a jumper. I have recompiled my kernel to test out the sio0 through sio1 drivers. I have tried com0 through com4. I have changed the config for the kernelfor sio1 to reflect IRQ4 (COM1). I have tried different baud rate settings. Questions : ------------ How must I specify for that com port in my /etc/ttys file ? How do I set up my com ports properly, so that I can be sure that it is not the software settings that are mucking up the system. Which major character device number do I use (ie. is 8 correct for the com drivers and is 28 correct for the sio drivers) ? How do I test the comport more efficiently - I have tried kermit but it gives me a "could not open - interrupted system call" when I try to ^C. Can it be the make of the mouse ? I'm using a TEC-MOUSE, but have also tried a LOGITECH mouse. (I used the "logitech" as the mouse in /etc/Xconfig.) Does the booting up info (ie. sio1 - 0x3*** to 0x3*** type <16540>) help me in showing that it reads the comport correctly ? I would really appreciate any help , as I've tried to get this thing working for a week now, and it's driving me to the point where I'd rather install something else...... Thankyou, Rolf. Regards, (--------------------------------------------------------------------) ( R.H.W. Poser Chem.Eng. III University of Pretoria ) (Fidonet : 5:7101/22.23 or : Rolf.Poser@p23.f22.n7101.z5.fidonet.org) ( Fastest : pose-rh@babel.ee.up.ac.za Tel.: +27-12-451528 ) (--------------------------------------------------------------------)