Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 10:59:48 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: marian parker <marian.parker@mindspring.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: sio problems (was: mouse problems) Message-ID: <19980708105948.X7792@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19980707175835.006975ec@pop.mindspring.com>; from marian parker on Tue, Jul 07, 1998 at 05:58:35PM -0500 References: <3.0.1.32.19980707175835.006975ec@pop.mindspring.com>
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On Tuesday, 7 July 1998 at 17:58:35 -0500, marian parker wrote: > > ok, i still need help with getting my mouse to werk in freebsd. its a > microsoft mouse, at irq4 com1. the line in my kernel is: > > device sio0 at isa? port "IO_COM1" tty irq 4 vector siointr > > when i boot up, i see this line: > > sio0 not found at 0x3f8 > > the mouse wont work in x or console... please help me out!!!!!!!!! We want to help, but you're not making it easy. I wrote yesterday: > 2. Describe your hardware and the version of FreeBSD you're running. > 3. Describe what you're trying to do. Do you want to use the mouse > with X, with moused, or what? > 4. Describe what happens. What goes wrong? > 5. In this specific case: you're also having problems with PPP. What > kind of motherboard do you have. Run dmesg and tell me^H^Hus if > you see something like: > > sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on isa > sio0: type 16550A > sio1 at 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa > sio1: type 16550A > > If you get 'not found' messages, you may be suffering from a known > bug which hits certain motherboards. In this case, let me know > more about your hardware, in particular the motherboard or the > machine manufacturer. You've given me (3) and a fraction of (5), enough to tell me that you have a different problem. How about the complete answers? Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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