Re: [TCLUG:11008] Invisible mouse?

[Jacqueline Urick <jacque@opencitizen.com>]

Your computer wouldn't happen to be an old Packard Bell (or similar)
would it?  When I used to do tech support, I would occasionally
encounter this problem. 

Some explaination is here: http://www.pacifier.com/help/connection/irqshare.html


this is the windows specific solution:
ftp://ftp.logitech.com/pub/TechSupport/MOUSE/HELP/1021.txt


Hope that helps!

Jacque


"McNitt, Jennifer" wrote:
> 
> 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?
> >
> 
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