Please help a frustrated BCS member with a Linux sysadmin problem

[rodney at sabletech.com (Rodney Thayer)]

also make sure the mouse is on a com port that isn't using an interrupt that
conflicts with some other device.  some add-on hardware has a habit of
stealing irq 3, for example, which is used for com2.

At 07:04 PM 6/3/96 -0400, you wrote:
>Jonathan Lettvin <disquick at tiac.net> writes:
>>> I have been asking for help dealing with a hardware problem for a week
or so.
>>> I have posted help requests in comp.os.linux.help and comp.os.linux.setup.
>>> I have also emailed "InfoMagic" from whom I purchased the SlackWare 3.0
CD-ROMs.
>>> So far, I haven't gotten even one human to respond.
>>> 
>>> The problem is that my mouse doesn't work quite right.
>>> Here are the few things I can say for sure.
>>> 
>>> The following two commands give me responses (but garbage only) to the
mouse.
>>>         test-mouse -m /dev/psaux -t ms
>>>         test-mouse -m /dev/psaux -t ps2
>>>.......
>>> I have a Microsoft Serial mouse 2.0 on a converter plug to RS232 9 pin.
>>> Can you suggest how to make this mouse work?
>>> 
>>> My system is Slackware 3.0 on a Pentium.
>
>"test-mouse" must be specific to Slackware 3.0; I don't have that on my 
>systems. Do you have "gpm" on your system? That's the preferred mouse driver 
>for text mode use.
>
>Are you plugging your mouse into a serial port? If your 9-pin serial port
>is COM1: under DOS, then it would be /dev/ttyS0 on Linux. I'm not sure
>what /dev/psaux is offhand, but I'd guess that's for a busmouse. 
>
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