On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 01:38:19AM -0800, Andy Thomas wrote > Yes, the mouse was switched to IRQ5 and it works now. At about the same > time I've discovered what a rich keystroke environment x windows is. I was > about to write about the bad keystroke accelerator support in x but that > must have been kde because this fmvm2 or whatever rocks from a keystroke > standpoint. Just hit alt-f2 and you can go anywhere it appears. That and > alt-tab are a winning combination. So now that I have the mouse, it's not > a necessity... is Linux synchronistic or what? <g> > > Q: Could tty0 just as easily have been switched to IRQ5 in the > configuration files and the mouse jumper left at IRQ4? If that method were > used, what other problems might crop up assuming that tty0 (com1) is > physically out of action (no cable running to the mobo) and only tty1 is > being used?
Potentially, although that's not normally something you'ld configure from within Linux - "standard" serial ports aren't software configurable (but may have jumpers) and you can configure on-board serial ports in the BIOS on many motherboards, but unless your serial ports are on an ISA-PNP board they'd normally be configured by the time Linux booted. Debian includes a utility called 'setserial' but that configures the serial driver: you use it to tell it how the hardware is set up, not to configure the hardware. Software outside the kernel shouldn't really care what IRQ your serial ports use, but they will notice if it is physically disconnected and they try to use it to talk to the outside world; beyond that, it doesn't matter. Using setserial you can specify exactly which I/O ports and IRQ to use for ttyS0-3, and it doesn't really matter which physical port you associate with each device name, so long as when you run pppconfig or gpmconfig or whatever you use the name that the serial driver associates with the I/O ports and IRQ corresponding to the UART talking to the plug that your modem/mouse is connected to. I hope that's clear. Also, the serial ports are ttyS0, ttyS1, etc; tty1, tty2 and so on are the virtual terminals that you access with ALT-F1, ALT-F2, etc (CTRL-ALT- under X). > > Now, is there a ppp configuration utility under x in Debian? I can't find > anything other than pppconfig and with that can't figure out how to get > back to the dns configuration screen for any connection when using that. That could be because (at least in slink) it isn't there - if you installed using a PPP connection or have a network card, you may be recalling part of the installation process. Depending on your ISP's ppp setup and your pppd version you may not need to do anything about it but if, after connecting, you can ping remote sites by IP number but not by name look in /etc/resolv.conf, which should contain (among other things) a list of up to 3(?) nameservers; add one for your ISP's DNS, like so: nameserver 192.168.1.1 If you're running your own nameserver it would be more efficient to configure your ISP's DNS as a 'forwarder' for your nameserver. John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Oh - I - you know - my job is to fear everything." - Bill Gates in Denmark
