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- From: pbd@runyon.cim.cdc.com (Paul Dokas)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: XFree86 mouse problems solved
- Message-ID: <51150@shamash.cdc.com>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 21:32:52 GMT
- Sender: usenet@shamash.cdc.com
- Organization: ICEM Systems, Inc.
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- The problems that I was having with X turned out to be in the hardware.
- The serial ports on my IDE-IO (ide, fd, 2s 1p 1g) card are useless (no
- surprise here :-| )
-
- So I'm now down to 2 serial ports (a mouse and a terminal), but I need
- 3 (I've got a modem). I've got a simple dual serial card (a 16450 and
- a 16550 on board), but I'm considering getting another. But I've got
- a few questions first. Does anyone know if the default com driver will
- handle shared IRQs for serial ports? For example, will the following
- work:
-
- device com1 at isa? port "IO_COM1" tty irq 4 vector comintr
- device com2 at isa? port "IO_COM2" tty irq 3 vector comintr
- device com3 at isa? port 0x3e8 tty irq 4 vector comintr
- device com4 at isa? port 0x2e8 tty irq 3 vector comintr
-
- com1 and com3 share IRQ 4 and com2 and com4 share IRQ 3. Where com1
- and com2 are on one board and com3 and com4 are on another.
-
- If this won't work, then can someone recommend a multi-port serial
- card.
-
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