ericr@ipmoea.UUCP (Eric Roskos) (10/22/87)
Bing H. Bang at Lanier writes: > i had this problem with my mouse before i made my com port drivers. > the problem is very simple; the mouse being connected to a serial port, > gives off com port interrupts 11 or 12 and since minix does not have a > handler for these interrupts, they produce the generic error about > unknown interrupts. several solutions: I forgot to mention in my posting, this is a "Bus" mouse that is causing the problem (i.e., it has its own interface card, & you can set the interrupt to use with a jumper). I don't *think* the mouse interrupts if you don't move it (does it? Unfortunately it doesn't come with any hardware documentation). It looks like this is a more subtle bug than that; I had thought maybe the mouse driver enabled something in the mouse card which was causing periodic interrupts, but so far I haven't found any evidence to support or refute that idea.