RE: [TCLUG:11008] Invisible mouse?

["McNitt, Jennifer" <Jennifer.McNitt@westgroup.com>]

This sounds very similar to a problem I'm currently having with my system
(Red Hat 6.1).  My mouse will not work either.  I did find out one thing
though.  If I take out the modem in the computer, the mouse then works.
This leads me to believe it is a conflict somewhere with my onboard serial
ports my I/O board and the modem.  I haven't found the right combination yet
though.

Jen

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Sherohman [mailto:esper@usinternet.com]
> Sent: Thursday, December 09, 1999 11:49 AM
> To: TCLUG
> Subject: [TCLUG:11008] Invisible mouse?
>
>
> I'm having mouse problems with an old system I'm trying to get
> set up.  (Yes,
> it's the P-100 that was out in the hall at the meeting last Saturday...)
>
> Anyhow, I got Debian installed on the system and running just fine, except
> that gpm would hang whenever it tried to autodetect the mouse.  (Actually,
> the entire console would hang - nothing would respond locally, although I
> could telnet in, kill the mouse probe, and all would be OK again, once I
> reset the terminal that ran the probe.)  Then I installed Win98
> to see what
> it came up with for the mouse settings.  It didn't see the mouse.
>  I've tried
> both COM1 and COM2.  I've tried a known-good mouse and tried that
> machine's
> mouse on another system (where it worked fine).  I've disabled
> the on-board
> serial controller and dropped in an I/O card.  And the thing still insists
> that there's no mouse attached.
>
> Oh, and when it was running in Linux, ttyS0 and ttyS1 were detected just
> fine.
>
> Any ideas for things I haven't tried yet?
>