Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 15 Feb 1998 10:40:22 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Serial mouse lockups in X11 with Linux 2.1.85 |
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Hi!
> > I've noticed that my serial mouse (3-button MouseSystems on ttyS0) > > seems to lock up occaisionally under linux 2.1.85 running X11R6. > > > > Unfortunatly, I can't seem to link this to anything else happening, so > > I can't really reproduce it (it just seems to happen, but the majority > > of the time its when I switch VCs into X Windows). It seems to work > > fine after restarting xdm (with Ctrl-Alt-BS).. > > > > The same setup doesn't produce this under 2.0.33... > > I have a MouseSystems mouse too (made by "A4 Tech") and I've > noticed that it's acting erradically recently. I doubt that the actual > MOUSE can somehow get "broken"...it's worked great for years in several > computers. One thing that worries me is that recently, linux seems to > detect one of my serial ports as an 8250 (it's really a 16550). But this > port isn't the mouse port. But it's still suspicious. (Could it have > something to do with the fact that there's a hewlett packard remote > control receiver plugged into that port?)
How does it behave under gpm? If correctly, setup X to use /dev/gpmdata, and add -R option to gpm. It really *should* be done this way (until someone writes kernel mouse driver).
Pavel -- I'm really pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz. Pavel Look at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/ ;-).
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