[K12OSN] old AT keyboards and serial mouse not working

[jam at mcquil.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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