Re: 755CE Serial port under Linux

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From: Steve Hultquist (ssh_at_wwsi.com)
Date: Tue Oct 01 1996 - 21:53:40 EDT


>>>>> "David" == David Fox <fox_at_graphics.cs.nyu.edu> writes:

 David> After ignoring it for a couple of years, I'm trying to plug a mouse
 David> into my 9 pin serial port, but XFree doesn't see it. The boot message
 David> says tty00 at 0x03f8 irq 4 is a 16550A, and set serial says the same
 David> about /dev/ttyS0, but there is no response from moving or clicking.
 David> Anyone know a trick to make this work? I remember having the same
 David> problem on someone's 760. Thanks in advance...

You need to make sure that the serial port is on. I sent a message about how
to do this with '95 a while ago, but I'm not sure how to do this with Linux.
You might want to make sure that PS2 (which you can put on a bootable floppy)
sees the serial port as active.

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