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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!darwin.sura.net!haven.umd.edu!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!bs From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: 386BSD/Xfree com ports questions Date: 28 Sep 1992 11:58:39 GMT Organization: EUnet Backbone, Dortmund, Germany Lines: 35 Distribution: world Message-ID: <1a6s1fINN277@disaster.Germany.EU.net> References: <1992Sep27.143015.24664@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: walhalla.germany.eu.net In article <1992Sep27.143015.24664@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu>, lafollet@astro.ocis.temple.edu (Paul Lafollette) writes: > 1) I have a Genius mouse on com1. Does one of the > standard protocols useable in Xconfig work for it? Use Mousesystems (works for me, at least...) > 2) One of the changes I made in Xconfig was to change > "/dev/tty00" to "/dev/com1". Was this reasonable? Depends on where your mouse is connected. Mine is on /dev/com4... > More important, how do I get the baud rate set right on > com1? Does it suffice to include the speed paramater in Xconfig? Yes, that's sufficient. (1200, I think) > 3) Related to number 2... i have an internal modem on com2. I > would like to configure it so that when i am home i can use > it for dialout with tip or (God help me) slip. On the > otherhand when I am at work, I would like to be able to use > this as a dial-in port. Is this possible? Is it possible > to do it so I don't have to remember to make a change before > I go running out the door late for class? :) Hmm... dunno. But if you find a com driver that supports your mouse *and* your modem at the same time, drop me a mail and tell me about it. -Bernard -- Bernard Steiner, FB Informatik/IRB, Uni Dortmund, vox +49 231 755 2444 Postfach 500500, D-W-4600 Dortmund 50, Germany fax +49 231 755 2386 bs@Germany.EU.net ...!uunet!unido!bs *III And they gave it Instructions, but knew it not. } From The Book of Nome, *IV It is, they said, a Box with a Funny Voice. } Mezzanine v.III-IV