From: Paolo Remagnino (P.Remagnino@ee.surrey.ac.uk)
Date: 02/28/93 

From: P.Remagnino@ee.surrey.ac.uk (Paolo Remagnino)
Subject: *** THe f%$#*@ mouse not working ***
Date: 28 Feb 1993 13:15:25 GMT




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 Hi there,

 still problems with my microsoft compatible mouse.

 I have a mouse (microsoft compatible) on serial com2; I have
 tried to have it running on my X386mono server linked ad hoc
 to work with the hercules card.

 my Xconfig is

 Microsoft "/dev/ttyS1"
 baud..  1200

 hga2 
 screenno 0

 X starts fine a part from a wierd message at the very beginning
 (I dump diagnostic with startx -- X386mono >& /tmp/p)

 Setting TCP SO_LINGER: Protocol not available
no SIOCGIFCONF
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
< ????????????????   whassat ? >

XFree86 Version 1.2 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 5000)
Configured drivers:
  VGA2 (monochrome VGA):
      et4000, et3000, pvga1, gvga, tvga8900c, tvga9000, tvga8900b,
      generic
  HGA2 (monochrome HGA):
      hga6845
(using VT number 7)

 I see a clock, two windows (sloooow because I have 4 megs of RAM and 8 meg of swap)

 then I can work on the active window , but the f*&^%ing cursor is stuck in the
 middle ?

        why ? why ? for god sake why ?

 ah, one more thing I noticed that there is some bits missing in the SLS
 which were in the Xfree861.2 : I could not find the configrender.sh 
 so I had to reinstall the Xfree861.2 I grabbed from the same site
 tsx-11.mit.edu but in /packages/Xfree86 !!

        thanx for any help

        Paolo