From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 6 9:40: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dsl-64-193-218-89.telocity.com (dsl-64-193-218-89.telocity.com [64.193.218.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8171637B401 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 09:39:47 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 11688 invoked by uid 1000); 6 Feb 2001 17:37:11 -0000 Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 11:37:11 -0600 From: Lucas Bergman To: Peter Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: startx resets the modem Message-ID: <20010206113711.A3979@billygoat.slb.to> Reply-To: lucas@slb.to References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from fbsdq@yahoo.com on Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 09:31:30AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I have a modem [isa [PnP, but jumpers are set [PnP is off]], > com4/cuaa3], I dial out to isp, everything is working great [this is > done as root]. When I login with a regular user account, and then > type 'startx', this resets my modem [resets= makes it hang up], so > basically I have to dial back out after starting X.... Sounds like hardware. Does your serial port share an interrupt with your display hardware or mouse? Do any other (suspicous) bits of hardware share interrupts? Does X think you have a serial mouse? Are there any screwball interrupt assignments in your CMOS setup? Does your computer really have four serial ports? :) Lucas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message