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From: stever@csuohio.edu (Steve Ratliff)
Subject: Re: Mouse
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Mark Westerman (mwesterman@hti.net) wrote:
: Well now that I finally got the graphics driver to work. I have 
: discover that the mouse does not work. When I use the /dev/mse0
: I get the "Device not configured" if I use a tty00 or tty01 the
: kernel hang. I have uses this line.
: cat < /dev/tty00. 
: After this I have too turn the power off. Any help in this area
: will be appriecated.

	It sounds like you have the now infamous broken 16550 clone bug.
There is a patch to the sio.c com driver file for this that adds an 
"inb" command.  Try looking for the patch on ref.tfs.com

Steve
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