Re: XF86 wants a mouse file
George and Andy,
Thanks again, guys. I will try some further experimantation,
but facing the music and upgrading to Woody may be the best
answer after all.
I really appreciate your time and attention.
Mike
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Georg Koss <g.koss@eunet.at>
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 18:05:29 +0200
>On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 11:42:06AM -0400, mmissett wrote:
>> George,
>> Thanks a lot for your reply, I really appreciate it, and
>> will take a look at the settings you included. I guess,
>> though, that you're using Woody (or Sid), because you say
>Woody ...
>
>> you are running XFree86 4.1 and your configuration shows
>> an ati driver.
>XF4.1 uses framebuffer beacause of a bogus PCI ... which's modules I
>had to configure in the kernel's framebuffer section.
>
>XF4.0.x uses drivers, that's right.
>
>> I have potato with XFree86 3.3, which has
>> no ati (video) driver, and that's part of the problem.
>
>So probably you will have a look on www.xfree.org for 3.3.6 for that issue.
>
>> I'm trying to solve this without upgrading, which may
>> simply be impossible.
>Don't think so. When I started a year ago I had 3.3.6 ugly slow but
> working, but I didn't remember the XF86Config, sorry.
>
>> (And which would, apparently, solve
>> most, if not all, these problems.)
>Woody is good working (and not far from getting "stable") so I
>recommend this ;-). I personally had no problems for months (except
>one little bug three days ago, that was on the list).
>
>> is a bit over my head (eg: getting the mouse to work on
>> console?).
>If you're on console (no X working, what you mentioned is your
>problem) you should see a rectangular mouse-cursor at least if you
>move your mouse. If that isn't viable configure the mouse with
>gpmconfig (mouse-type IMPS/2 and repeat-mode raw works for my
>USB-Logitech-mouse).
>
>
>> The kernel, BTW, is recognizing the mouse on
>> startup.
>Then you should see a short blinking of that rectangular mouse-cursor
>when the kernel goes up as well ;-)
>
>SY
>
>--
>
>M.f.G.
>
>Georg Koss
>
>mailto: g.koss@eunet.at
>
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