Re: USB mouse

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt <bh40@calva.net>]

>
>XFree86 4.01 debs won't be out for a while, and they probably won't
>include the experimental PPC stuff. No idea on the Pismo, but the Lombard
>needs a kernel patch to resolve PCI resource conflicts with 2.2 kernels
>that lead to XFree disabling the video chip PCI region, resulting in a
>kernel crash when the X server calls on the frame buffer driver to set
>color maps. 

If someone wants to make XF4.0.1 debs for PPC, I beleive they should be
done from Franz Sirl source base (devel.linuxppc.org/users/fsirl/xf4/
SRPMS). This archive contains the latest fixes, patches, etc... for PPC
users, including all the new "linux keycodes" stuff. However, for proper
behaviour with the new linux keycodes, you should also update the console
keymaps and sysctl.conf in order to enable them by default in the kernel.
If you don't want to do that, then you can stick to the old keycodes and
keymaps, it should be backward compatible (X will check for /proc/sys/
dev/mac_hid/keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes and pick the apropriate XKbModel).

BTW Michael, can you send me the PCI patch ?

>The accelerated 4.01 server is a lot faster than fbdev, and faster than
>Xpmac from all accounts. Plus you have the usual options to configure
>additional pointer devices.
>
>If you want to give XFree 4.01 a test drive I can pack up my X server and
>the loadable modules plus a sample XF86Config to install over the regular
>3.3.x install (no real debs, unless I can fake a deb out of my install
>somehow).
>
>	Michael
>
>

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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <bh40@calva.net>
To: Michael Schmitz <schmitz@opal.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de>,
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Subject: Re: USB mouse
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 15:05:27 +0200
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