I've got an old machine from my friend, and put my HDD with Linux
installed into this machine.
So the hardware is:
Celeron 500MHz (on 66MHz FSB)
Intel 440BX chipset
128MB of DRAM (PC133)
I have Debian GNU/Linux 3.0r1 woody stable with linux-2.4.18-686 kernel
from Debian.
I tried to make my Microsoft Serial Mouse to work. When I started gpm
mouse worked fine. But when I started X, cursor became freezed.
With another mouse for PS/2 port, the situation was the same.
When X and gpm were stoped,
#cat /dev/ttyS0
worked fine for MS mouse (writes the sequance of charecters).
But for the following commands:
#cat /dev/ttyS0 >/dev/null &
#cat /dev/ttyS0
An empty output was produced.
So i can make the conclusion that i can open one port only once.
But on other machines i have everything working fine, and I need no
problems opening one port twice.
May be it is a problem with 440BX chip or BIOS settings.
Did anyone experience the same or similar problems?
What are your suggestions?
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