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From: Jason Marshall <marshall@isrusa.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Funky serial port problems
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 17:57:37 -0700
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I have a new machine at home I'm trying to get up and running, but for
some reason I cannot get the mouse to be recognized. The machine an
Free BSD recognize the serial ports, and I don't seem to have an IRQ
conflict. However, trying both serial ports with two mice that are both
supposed to be MS Mouse compatible (one is a PS2 touchpad, which I plug
into a serial port adapter, the other a generic serial mouse), I cannot
get the X configuration program to recognize the input. Since this is a
virgin system, I cannot rule out hardware failure, so I was wondering if
anyone had heard of this sort of configuration problem.
TIA,
Jason
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Jason Marshall marshall@isrusa.com
Just because it works doesn't mean it isn't broken.