[K12OSN] old AT keyboards and serial mouse not working

Joe Guenther jguenther at chinooksedge.ab.ca
Tue Feb 24 17:12:01 UTC 2004


tried that too ... that is just the COM1 / COM2 selection .... but why no
keyboard?????

joe

-----Original Message-----
From: k12osn-admin at redhat.com [mailto:k12osn-admin at redhat.com]On Behalf
Of Petre Scheie
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 2:58 PM
To: k12osn at redhat.com
Subject: Re: [K12OSN] old AT keyboards and serial mouse not working


You might try setting the X_MOUSE_DEVICE to ttyS1.  I had one workstation
which
had just one serial port but that was the only way I could get it to see the
mouse.  Not sure about the kb.

Petre

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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