"I am alone in a world of weirdos." wrote: > heya, > > i have a serial mouse which i am trying to get to talk to my debian > system. thre isn't anything complicated about it, just a mouse on ttyS0. > > it used to work with the motherboard i am using, but i moved my system to > a bigger case, and for various reasons when i did that i reinstalled the > OS. since then it has not worked. > > its not just the mouse either, i try connecting my Palm III to ttyS1 and > the palm claims i am trying to talk to a modem. needless to say the palm > also used to work with this motherboard, and works on my ol' 486. > > my com ports are turned on in the bios, my /dev/ttyS* are all set to > world rwx (i am not particularly concerned with security at the moment.) > my serial.conf looks fine, and i am stumped. > > i edited the serial.conf in order to get my modem working on ttyS3, which > it did. i have commented and commented that bunches of times, and even > tried reinstalling the setserial package. > > when i first moved the motherboard to the new case i had some problems > with the motherboard shorting out, but i have since insulated and fixed > that and everything else except the com ports are working now. > > it seems like this is something stupid that has continued to slip past me, > but i cannot figure it out. > thanks, > ~mark > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > This email is free email, and may be > modified and/or distributed under the > terms of the GNU General Public > License available at: > http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html > > Copyright (C) 2000 Mark A. Torrey Esq. > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
You might try physically removing your modem, extra serial port/com port devices, etc, and then see if the mouse works. Also, if you have an external modem available (even an old slow one), you might attach it to a serial port and boot off a DOS floppy and give the command "echo ATDT[YourCellPhoneNumber] > com[1|2]"; if your cell phone rings, you know that the physical port is functioning. (You can "echo ATZ > com[1|2]" to hang up the modem.) I also assume you've used gpmconfig to setup/test your mouse connection? And that you're testing in console mode rather than in X? Just some ideas....
