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Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 12:48:37 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Grant Schofield <gschofield@wiac.iol.ie>
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Subject: Re: Mouse problems sio0 & sio2
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On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, Grant Schofield wrote:

> I'm having a hell of a time getting FreeBSD to find my serial ports. I
> have tried everything in the manuals, changed IRQ's, etc., etc., ad
> nauseum! My BIOS says there are 2 mouse ports, COM1 and COM3, however,
> when FBSD boots I get
> 
> sio0 not found at 0x3f8
> sio1 not found at 0x2f8
> 
> I presume FBSD acts in the same way as DOS, i.e. you need a serial
> port installed [COM1] in order to run the mouse.

It helps, especially if you have a serial mouse.

> not suprisingly I then get
> 
> mse0 not found at 0x23c

You don't have a ATI BusMouse.

> I have tried everything I can think of. My machine uses PCI, the mouse
> is a no name brand, and I can't find any info about the board that
> might help.

Classic ALI serial port chip problem.  Try upgrading to 2.2.7 or see
http://www.lemis.com/serial-port-patch.html

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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