[K12OSN] old AT keyboards and serial mouse not working

[Dennis Daniels]

Hello,
I've a similar problem with older monitors... I've got a bunch of AT 
cases with mmx and PIs on board, plenty fine for clients but the Xfree 
server is having a bear of a time picking up these old donated 
monitors... hand configing these is a real time consuming pain. As I am 
the teacher and network admin for this install of LTSP every spare 
moment is consumed with improving student services and teaching. Anyone 
have a tip/trick for getting older monitors to work?

New monitors work without a problem.. The old monitors sit unused which 
means I've fewer clients that I'd really like to put to work! I've tried 
using knoppix and it too is asking for manual adjustment of scan 
rates... are we looking at mountains of landfill monitors because 
getting the correct scan rate is so difficult? </environmental concern>

I know that I'm not the first to face this problem, please advise!

Denny

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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