On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Mark Hesselink wrote:

> After hours of endless searching trough the mail archives, I'm still not
> able to use my serial mouse in X. I really have no clue why. I
> configured the mouse device as /dev/tty00 and tried all kinds of mouse
> protocols (MouseMan, MouseSystems, Microsoft).

> com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4: ns16550a, working fifo
> com1 at isa0 port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 5: ns16550a, working fifo

You have two serial ports. Is the second one a modem? Are you _sure_
you're hooking the mouse up to tty00? If that's not it, please post
the result of

  startx -- -probeonly 2>&1 >startx.log


Frederick