RE: Best network card for network install? && a question about /dev/psaux

["Glen S Mehn" <glen@squaretrade.com>]

are you running gpm? if so, you might try setting your mouse to /dev/gpmdata

Or try stopping gpm before starting X.

here's my XF86-Config-4 (I assume you're running X4?)(just the mouse
section)

Note that Emulate3Buttons is commented out, as well as ZAxisMapping

and I don't have gpm installed.

glen
Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Configured Mouse"
        Driver          "mouse"
        Option          "CorePointer"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/psaux"
        Option          "Protocol"              "PS/2"
#       Option          "Emulate3Buttons"       "true"
#       Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
EndSection

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Button [mailto:bbutton@objectmentor.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 07:35 PM
To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Best network card for network install? && a question about
/dev/psaux



----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Godshall" <togo@of.net>
To: "Glen Mehn" <glen@squaretrade.com>
Cc: "Brian Button" <bbutton@objectmentor.com>;
<debian-laptop@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 2:26 PM
Subject: Re: Best network card for network install?


> I'm glad to hear Glen had better experience than I did.
> Glen and Brian, could you note which release you're
> installing?  As I noted, my experience was with slink.
>
> --
> Tony
>
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 09:58:15AM -0700, Glen Mehn wrote:
> > before "configure device drivers" do "Alternate-- configure pcmcia"
> >
> > I've had good luck with just about every pcmcia card I've tried--
several xircom's, netgearfa410x, several different 3com's... I think you
just need to add pcmcia support before you configure the network (and I
think that I do it before I config device drivers)

*This* was the key :) I hadn't noticed the alternative choices there to do
this, and I'm sorry I didn't. Once I did that, and changed from a PCMPC200
V2 to an EC2T Linksys card, things went perfectly. I am tempted to wipe it
out now that I have it loaded, and just load the bits and pieces I need
instead of getting greedy and loading everything :)

The amazing thing is that X even works, almost. My current problem is that
my mouse doesn't move at all under X. Any advice on that? Here are the
particulars:

Laptop is Thinkpad 770X (9549-7AU)
XF86Config lists Mouse Protocol as PS/2 and device as /dev/psaux
Debian release is 2.2r3
/dev/psaux is root, root, mode is 660
I tried starting X as me and as root.

I get no error messages or anything, but the mouse doesn't work. I checked
on how I had the mouse configured on my previous RH 6.1 install, and
everything looks exactly the same.


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