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Date:      Thu, 8 Feb 1996 00:02:33 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        jeff@stat.uconn.edu (Jeffrey M. Metcalf)
Cc:        bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Serial Mouse
Message-ID:  <199602072302.AAA07179@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <9602071818.AA15779@ruddles.stat.uconn.edu> from "Jeffrey M. Metcalf" at Feb 7, 96 01:18:52 pm

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As Jeffrey M. Metcalf wrote:
> 
> I was just wondering if I must compile a custom kernel to detect the 
> mice mentioned in the following message.
> Are they detected with the generic kernel device mse0.  These
> mice plug into COM2, right?

Which serial device depends on where you plug it in.  They are in the
GENERIC kernel, yes, normally /dev/ttyd0 (COM1) or /dev/ttyd1 (COM2).
If you are using COM3 or COM4, boot with -c and make sure that you
properly assign the IRQ levels for the devices sio2 or sio3.  They
canNOT share their IRQ with sio0 or sio1, so you can't use the default
IRQ of most cards.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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