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Re: gpm does not work



On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 07:29:27PM +0100, npedrajas@uco.es wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have installed debian 2.1 in a ultra sparc 60. More or less
> everything is ok. I have a few problems:
> 
> 1) gpm does not work. Whe i run "gpm -t sun -m /dev/rtc" it does
> nothing, even return the call.

Use "gpm -t sun -m /dev/sunmouse". If sunmouse does not exist, then this
first:

mknod -m 644 /dev/sunmouse c 10 6

> 2) The X servers don't work, I have tried all of them. Moreover, I
> don't know how to configure it as xf86config and XF86Setup are not
> present.

What graphics device do you have? What type of sparc? Note, that Xsun
servers do not use the xf86config and XF86Setup since the screen sizes and
resolutions are detected from the type of card. Also what happens when you
do run them?

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