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From: ajs6143@bcstec.ca.boeing.com (Andy Stefancik)
Subject: Re: Serial Mouse
Message-ID: <D50zIH.37B@bcstec.ca.boeing.com>
Organization: The Boeing Company
References: <3j5rnl$46d@baygull.rtd.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 1995 15:39:51 GMT
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In article <3j5rnl$46d@baygull.rtd.com>, Mark Beeson <mark@RTD.COM> wrote:
>Alright, after having ripped most of my hair out, I'm coming here to
>ask the question (I suppose I should ask bsdi-users@bsdi.com also,
>but oh well):
>
>Why the hell won't my serial mouse work under X?
>
>- The com port shows up on dmesg
>- The device looks fine
>- /etc/Xconfig looks fine
>
>Anything else I should check?
>
>--Mark
>mark@nin.com

I've seen a couple of instances where the baud rate was set at 9600 in /etc/Xconfig,
and needed to be at 1200.

Andy S.