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- From: veit@du9ds3.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix
- Subject: Re: COM port conflict in XFree86
- Date: 21 Dec 92 14:29:58 GMT
- Organization: Uni-Duisburg FB9 Datenverarbeitung
- Lines: 32
- Message-ID: <veit.724948198@du9ds3>
- References: <1992Dec21.075000.10043@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
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- In <1992Dec21.075000.10043@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> galbrait@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (GALBRAITH JOHN) writes:
-
- >Hey, does anybody know why my serial mouse (Microsoft type) does not
- >work properly when I am using the modem? The mouse is in COM1 and the
- >baud rate is selected by the server - I don't tell it what it should be
- >in the Xconfig. The modem is in COM2 at 2400 baud.
- > Normally, the mouse is fine. When I am on the modem, however,
- >the server will only respond to the mouse after a keypress. So, you can
- >adjust the mouse, hit a key to see it go, adjust the mouse some more, hit
- >another key...
- > To make matters more confusing, the mouse works fine when I am
- >doing a zmodem download.
- > Is this something that XFree is doing, or the operating system?
- >I am running 386BSD 0.1. If this is an operating system question, I will
- >ask elsewhere...
- > Thanks.
- >John Galbraith
- >galbrait@rintintin.colorado.edu
-
- This is a known (and solved) problem of 386bsd. This is the "select" problem,
- which is referred in the 386bsd buglist as MISC009, and it is related to
- different minor number handling in the com driver and the tty interface.
- This is corrected in one of the patches of the patchkit. If you have not
- only the "X patches" for 386bsd, but a real PL 58 kernel, this should no longer
- occur.
-
- Holger
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