SOundcard/Mouse conflict

[Type-O]

Heres my problem.


Sound card was not working. Got it working. But this then killed my mouse. So using some past posts here I figured out how to get my mouse working again. It's not a USB mouse. This is an interupt conflict I'm assuming, so my question is how do I change the interupt settings? Bios? Software?

Im using MDK 9.0 Soundblaster Live, and a Logitech serial mouse.


Thanks

-jim

[gritseater]

Is the sound card reading the mouse port as a joystick port?

[banzaikai]

Howdy.

> Im using MDK 9.0 Soundblaster Live, and a Logitech serial mouse.

Well, to check the IRQs, just open a terminal window and type:

procinfo -i

About a jillion IRQs go flashing by, just scroll back up to the top 15, and see what you've got.

I doubt the SB is conflicting with the mouse, as most SBs use IRQs of 5 and above, NEVER have I seen them pop in at IRQ4 (the serial port the mouse is on). What probably happened was the SB went in, wedged it's way onto IRQ10 or IRQ11, and the card that WAS there then moved to another IRQ. The only cards I've seen that go "down" to IRQ3/4 have been Network cards (NICs). Run the procinfo and see what card isn't playing nice.

To fix this problem, you may just need to move the cards around (this makes the PnP reset the IRQs of the cards). You may have to change things in your configs to reflect the change of IRQs, though.

Hope this helps...

banzai

[mdwatts]

Check your bios settings for the com ports for the serial mouse.

COM1 will be irq4
COM2 will be irq3

You should also have a symlink from your serial mouse port to /dev/mouse.

ls -al /dev/ttyS# (com1 is ttyS0 | com2 is ttyS1)

ls -al /dev/mouse

/dev/mouse should be pointing to /dev/ttyS#

ln -s /dev/ttyS# /dev/mouse

[Type-O]

Thanks for all your help everyone!!! I now have my mouse and sound card working together!!