Re: Lost Mouse

[Paul Wilkins <pmw57 xtra co nz>]

PBEACH1 sears com wrote:
> I'm trying to install RH5.2, and I had my mouse working fine until
> last week (I've been trying to get my dial-out working for weeks, off
> and on, with some limited success).  Now, my mouse doesn't work at
> all.  I have a Logictech/Firstmouse with two buttons and a wheel.
> 
> I check setserial /dev/ttyS1 and get back a message that the device is
> in use or busy.
> 
> I check setserial /dev/cua1 and setserial /dev/mouse and they both
> refer to the same UART, ioport address, and IRQ, so it seems that
> the mouse is pointed in the right direction.  I also get no mouse
> response in either X-windows or out.
> 
> I have tried using mouseconfig to set my mouse to every type of mouse
> listed in the menu for mouseconfig, and for every serial mouse I have
> tried all of the /dev/cua# options.  I borrowed a Micro$oft mouse from
> a friend to  no avail, and I have checked to make sure that the all of
> the connections are tight.
> 
> I don't know what I could have messed up.  The day before I had made a
> change in my bios settings and things were working fine, but then the
> next day they weren't.  I *think* the only change I made there was
> trying to point my modem to IRQ 10 (since I had been having a conflict
> between it and the mouse).  But now I have changed that back but to no
> avail.   I've also given my bios settings a pretty good look over and
> don't see what else I could have hosed up, but I'm no expert at such
> tweakings.   Also I now seem to be having a conflict between my modem
> and something else (given the slowness of my response times).  And now
> my mouse doesn't work.
> 
> So I would really appreciate any help that I could get in this regard.
> Thanks for any help you folks can muster,

Right, the software appears to be fine. Next step, check the mouse.
Plug it into another box (dos, or linux, no real worry)

If the software appears fine and the mouse looks good, then what is left
is the com port itself. Primary suspect, the bios.

Did com1 get turned off or reassigned? Was com1 reassigned to com3 for
example. Is there anything that interfers with irq4. Are there irq
conflicts in the bios which end up turning the com port into something
worse than useless?

You may even find that doing a screen dump of the bios pages to a
printer, then resetting the bios back to the default settings is the
best answer yet. That way you can be assured that the bios isn't
screwing things up for you, and once you get the mouse going fine you
have the hardcopy printouts to guide you through what you were
originally wanting to achieve.

Paul Wilkins
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