[K12OSN] old AT keyboards and serial mouse not working

[jam at mcquil.com]

On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Daniel Button wrote:

> Jim,
> 
> 	I have a similar problem.  I have been trying to hook up a touch screen to
> a client.  They error that I get is that it can not find the serial port.  I
> checked and there is not /dev/ttyS[01] listed.  I find a lot of other tty
> devices listed.  My first thought that the serial ports were left out of the
> kernel config.  I have not had enough time to research this heavily.  I will
> keep plugging away at though.  Any suggestions??

Load the serial.o kernel module, the /dev/ttyS0 and /dev/ttyS1 device
nodes should appear magically.

Jim McQuillan
jam at Ltsp.org



> 
> Thanks!!
> 
> Dan
> 
> Message: 15
> Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 17:15:34 -0500 (EST)
> From: jam at mcquil.com
> To: LTSP <k12osn at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: [K12OSN] old AT keyboards and serial mouse not working
> Reply-To: k12osn at redhat.com
> 
> It is probably completely a mouse problem.  I've seen many occasions
> where an incorrectly configured mouse will cause the keyboard to also
> not work in X windows.  Fix the mouse issue, and quite likely, the
> keyboard will work too.
> 
> Jim McQuillan
> jam at Ltsp.org
> 
> 
> On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Joe Guenther wrote:
> 
> > Help!!
> >
> > I am trying to demo the LTSP setup to the computer teacher and principal
> > .... and of course something does not work.  I have a compaq deskpro with
> > PS/2 mouse and PS/2 keyboard which works fine.
> >
> > Another workstation (I hve 22 of these that I wanted to convert to LTSP
> > terminals) has an AT keyboard - big plug, and serial mouse.  The mouse
> works
> > in the BIOS setup.  The BIOS is set to a non-PnP OS.  I can "pause" the
> boot
> > at the beginning but then at the X-server login window both keyboard and
> > mouse are non-existant.
> >
> > I am using LTSP 4
> >
> > [ws007]
> > XSERVER = auto
> > OR
> > XSERVER = XF86_S3  (both same result...)
> > X_MOUSE_PROTOCOL   = "Microsoft"
> > X_MOUSE_DEVICE     = "/dev/ttyS0"
> > X_MOUSE_RESOLUTION = 50
> > X_MOUSE_BUTTONS    = 3
> > X_MOUSE_BAUD       = 1200
> >
> > The rest is according to the defaults in LTSP 4.0 with latest updates.
> >
> > thanks for rescuing me
> > joe
> >
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