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JavaJack
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 Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2003 6:27 am Post subject: /dev/tts was never created during install |
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Without it, I cannot, as far as I can tell, use my serial mouse. At what point was it supposed to get created?
I built from stage 1 on a 486dx4-100, which took a week, so I don't fancy starting again from the very beginning 
I enabled standard uarts, and devfs in the kernel (vanilla sources).
Now what? |
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manywele
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| Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2003 8:05 am Post subject: |
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| A serial mouse eh? If devfs is mounted then you might have to modprobe some module to get devfs to create the proper entries in /dev. I have no idea what the name of the module would be for a serial mouse though. If you compiled serial mouse support into the kernel and not as a module then I don't know. |
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JavaJack
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| Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2003 1:55 pm Post subject: |
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| manywele wrote: | | If you compiled serial mouse support into the kernel and not as a module then I don't know. |
I don't know that serial mouse per se IS an option in the kernel. I didn't see any such thing. Serial mice are mentioned in the help text for standard/generic serial support.: "Most people will say Y or M here, so that they can use serial mice...". I built it directly, not as a module.
I see a single line in dmesg saying "Serial driver verion 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled". I don't see anyhing else related to serial.
When I cat /proc/devices, I see "4 tts/%d" and "5 cua/%d" listed there, but I don't see anything relevant in /proc/interrupts or ioports. (isn't COM1 supposed to use IRQ4?)
Is there a particular USE flag I forgot, maybe? Do I need to do some kind of mknod? |
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JavaJack
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| Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2003 12:38 am Post subject: The Fix: |
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The fix:
Remove ISAPNP from the kernel. |
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