Re: Can't configure 3rd button on mouse
On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Joseph Carter wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 12:15:16PM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> >
> > What I have figured out is that on my last upgrade to woody,
> > xserver-common and most everything else was upgraded to 4.x, but I just
> > discovered that my xserver-svga package is still 3.x. I'm not sure just
> > how that happened.
>
> XFree4 doesn't use it, that's how. It's for not-yet-supported cards.
So, how do I set up XFree4 to work? I installed it, but I don't remember
getting a chance to configure it...
> Chances are good if your card is reasonably modern, it's already supported
> by XFree4, in which case you'll configure a module for it. The Debian Way
The motherboard is less than 6 months old, so it's probably out-of-date by
now ;-)
> of doing that is Branden's department, I just help people set up DRI
> (which is amusing considering that I have yet to get it working for my new
> system, but that's neither here nor there..)
>
Whoosh <sound this paragraph makes as it goes completely over my head ;->
>
> > I discovered this when I tried to patch commands found in the config file
> > generated by xf86config and the server didn't recognize the "Section
> > InputDevice" command.
> >
> > I guess the next thing is to try to upgrade my xserver-svga.
>
> There's dexconf or whatever it's called for that.
Is there a shell with a "wild card command matching" feature?
Like, so I could type: *conf and get a list of valid commands matching the
wildcard from which to choose.
>
> There's also XFree86 -configure to let X configure itself.
>
Cool! I'll give this a try!
>
> > I recently upgraded my mother board so I could run VMware, and this board
> > has an SiS6326 graphics card built into the board (this one has everything
> > but a coffeemaker ;-). Should I be using a different server or is svga
> > enough. (I know it works, but with 5 meg on the graphics card I expected
> > better performance)
>
> I don't know if the sis chipsets are supported by Xfree4.
>
A bit of time will tell...
Thanks for all the great help,
Dwarf
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