From: tep@engr.uark.edu (Tim Peoples) Subject: Re: X/ATI bus mouse problems Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 15:24:03 GMT
thomas@uni-duisburg.de (Thomas Scheunemann) writes:
>
>At least there may be a problem with your interrupt. In default the kernel
>uses IRQ 5 (with the kernel distributed with SLS). This interupt may be
>used by some other device (LPT2 for instance). If so the Kernel keeps track
>which interrupt is used and does not allow the mouse device to use the same
>interrupt when X is started. If this is your problem then you have to change
>the interrupts and to recompile the kernel.
>
And if your busmouse is set to IRQ 2 then you need to set it to
IRQ 9 in busmouse.h. IRQ 2 just won't work.
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