Re: Help! Mouse no longer working!

[Rik van Riel <riel@nl.linux.org>]

On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Jose L. Gomez Dans wrote:

>    Recently, I got hold of a S3 ViRGE graphics card, bought in a bundle with
> an ESS Solo1. I'm not too bothered about the latter, as it seems to be
> supported by the alsa group. The problem seems to radicate in the S3.

> The mouse is serial, and located at /dev/ttyS0 (irq 4, 0x3f8,
> according to BIOS and /proc listings). gpm-mous-test can't locate
> the mouse either.

Does it work if you set the port to another I/O address?
There's an issue with S3 using the same I/O address (at least
the same low 10 bits) as some rs232 ports.

>     The funny bit is that the mouse works fine if I slot my old card (a VGA
> that goes into the XT bus), or if I use windows 3.1 instead of Linux.

This _is_ strange... Does the VGA16 or SVGA X server work?

Rik -- If a Microsoft product fails, who do you sue?
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