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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!decwrl!netcomsv!netcom.com!alm From: alm@netcom.com (Andrew Moore) Subject: XFree86 and Chris Demetrious's serial driver? Message-ID: <1993Mar13.051915.17006@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1993 05:19:15 GMT Lines: 25 XFree86 and Chris's serial driver work separately, but I can't get them to work together. The problem seems to be XFree86 doesn't know the incantation to open the mouse port under Chris's driver. I have a Kouwei KW-524F serial/parallel card with a 16450 on irq 4 and a 16550AFN on irq 3. With Chris's driver installed with option COM_BIDIR, I can connect to the mouse port on irq 4 in bidir mode via kermit (set line /dev/cua00) and verify that the mouse is alive and well. But no matter what mode the mouse port is in - bidir or -bidir (which its supposed to be) - and no matter device I specify for the mouse in Xconfig - /dev/com0 or /dev/cua00 (which only works in bidir mode) - XFree86 doesn't seem to be able to open the mouse port: the mouse is doa. I have noticed that XFree86 is smart about detecting the mouse with the stock 0.1pl110 serial driver even if the wrong device is given in Xconfig. Unfortunately, this does not seem to be the case with Chris's driver installed. If anyone has the mouse working under Chris's driver with XFree86, I would like to know how you do it! Thanks. -Andrew Moore <alm@netcom.com>