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- From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: MicroSoft Bus Mouse v.s. Linux 0.96c(pl2)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.092511.18926@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 09:25:11 GMT
- References: <1992Jul27.191720.2986@uwm.edu> <2835@ariel.its.unimelb.EDU.AU>
- Organization: University of Helsinki
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- In article <2835@ariel.its.unimelb.EDU.AU> rab@ariel.its.unimelb.EDU.AU (Richard Alan Brown) writes:
- >
- >I have a Microsoft InPort mouse, and it certainly doesn't work. However,
- >Nathan Laredo advises me that InPort mice are really just serial mice.
- >My InPort mouse card uses IRQ 5 and according to the docs uses port address
- >0x23C-0x23F, so i tried:
- >
- > % setserial /dev/tty2 0x23C 5
- >
- >and locked up the system quite nicely! I have no idea what to do next...
- >any ideas ??
-
- setserial got broken in pl1 or pl2: it locks the machine under some
- circumstances (actually, anything that opens a serial device that has
- the wrong parameters will do it). I'll make 0.97 available this weekend
- (dynamic buffers and the new SCS drivers), and the problem should be
- corrected. I'm still testing out some bug that seems to occur when
- memory is tight, but 0.97 should be pretty stable.
-
- Linus
-