Fw: Type 4 Optical Mouse & SS2
I think this is the one you reffered to;-)
Ingo
----- Original Message -----
From: <Steve.Grady@csiro.au>
I think this is the one you referred to,
Steve Grady
The Mouse Pad
Save this as a file, the pass it through a postscript printer and you have a
replacement for the Sparc mouse pad.
%!PS-Adobe-2.0
%% Sun 3 mouse pad
%% Copyright 1987, Beak Soft Inc.
%% All Rights Reserved
%% Permission is granted to copy and use this without charge
%% as long as the copyright notices remain intact.
%%
%%
gsave
90 rotate
/ZapfChancery-MediumItalic findfont 24 scalefont setfont
5 -40 moveto
(This is a mouse pad. It works!) show
( 1987, BeakSoft Inc.)
dup
stringwidth pop
10.9 72 mul
exch sub
dup /copyr exch def
-40 moveto
show
/Symbol findfont 24 scalefont setfont
(ã)
dup
stringwidth pop
copyr exch sub
-40 moveto
show
grestore
.8 setlinewidth
50 0 moveto
250
{ 2.4 0 rmoveto gsave 0 11 72 mul rlineto stroke grestore } repeat
.6 setlinewidth
50 0 moveto
300 { 0 2.8 rmoveto gsave 8.5 72 mul 0 rlineto stroke grestore } repeat
showpage
-----Original Message-----
From: Shawn Wallbridge [mailto:swallbridge@home.com]
Sent: Monday, 29 October 2001 5:54 PM
To: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org
Cc: Damian.DelCampo@team.telstra.com
Subject: RE: Type 4 Optical Mouse & SS2
You can get a postscript file that you can print out and use as a mouse pad.
I have seen it in action, but I have never tried it myself. What my friend
did was just print it out on a good laser printer and have it laminated. It
worked for him.
I don't have a link to it, but I am sure you can find it on Google. If not
let me know and I will ask my friend.
shawn
-----Original Message-----
From: Del Campo, Damian [mailto:Damian.DelCampo@team.telstra.com]
Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2001 7:44 PM
To: 'debian-sparc@lists.debian.org'
Subject: RE: Type 4 Optical Mouse & SS2
Thanks,
Damian Del Campo, B.Eng (Comp Sys - Hons)
Software Engineer, SAGRN Project
Phone 08 8401 7037 (Flinders St)
Fax 08 8231 1385
E-mail Damian.DelCampo@team.telstra.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve.Grady@csiro.au [SMTP:Steve.Grady@csiro.au]
> Sent: Monday, 29 October 2001 11:41
> To: Damian.DelCampo@team.telstra.com
> Subject: RE: Type 4 Optical Mouse & SS2
>
> Del,
>
> Follow the instructions below.
>
>
> Steve Grady
>
>
>
>
> The Mouse Pad
> Save this as a file, the pass it through a postscript printer and you have
> a
> replacement for the Sparc mouse pad.
>
>
>
>
> %!PS-Adobe-2.0
> %% Sun 3 mouse pad
> %% Copyright 1987, Beak Soft Inc.
> %% All Rights Reserved
> %% Permission is granted to copy and use this without charge
> %% as long as the copyright notices remain intact.
> %%
> %%
>
> gsave
> 90 rotate
> /ZapfChancery-MediumItalic findfont 24 scalefont setfont
> 5 -40 moveto
> (This is a mouse pad. It works!) show
> ( 1987, BeakSoft Inc.)
> dup
> stringwidth pop
> 10.9 72 mul
> exch sub
> dup /copyr exch def
> -40 moveto
> show
> /Symbol findfont 24 scalefont setfont
> (ã)
> dup
> stringwidth pop
> copyr exch sub
> -40 moveto
> show
> grestore
>
> .8 setlinewidth
> 50 0 moveto
> 250
> { 2.4 0 rmoveto gsave 0 11 72 mul rlineto stroke grestore } repeat
>
> .6 setlinewidth
> 50 0 moveto
> 300 { 0 2.8 rmoveto gsave 8.5 72 mul 0 rlineto stroke grestore } repeat
>
> showpage
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Del Campo, Damian [mailto:Damian.DelCampo@team.telstra.com]
> Sent: Monday, 29 October 2001 12:00 PM
> To: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Type 4 Optical Mouse & SS2
>
>
> Hi, having just completed my installation of debian on a SparkStation2
> that
> I acquired I was upset taht I couldnt' move my mouse (all the buttons
> work).
> I thought that it was stuffed but now realise that I don't have the pad
> for
> it. (its an optical mouse)
>
> Where do I go from here?
> 1) I pressume its not worth buying a type4 pad.
> 2) What other types of mouse/keyboard are compatible with a SS2 ie. type
> 5/6
> etc
> 3) Where could I buy a mechanical version? Currently looking on Ebay.
> 4) If I cut out the spacer in a PS2 plug, could I use it & what
> functionality would it lack. ie 6 pins instead of 8.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Damian Del Campo, B.Eng (Comp Sys - Hons)
> Software Engineer, SAGRN Project
> Phone 08 8401 7037 (Flinders St)
> Fax 08 8231 1385
> E-mail Damian.DelCampo@team.telstra.com
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Andreas Behnert [SMTP:abehn@gmx.net]
> > Sent: Sunday, 28 October 2001 5:03
> > To: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: Re: CD Instalation / "not block device"
> >
> >
> > "Del Campo, Damian" wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi, I changed the CD drive in my SunSparc2 as I thought it may be the
> > cause
> > > of my installation woes. Funnily enough, I could boot to it and the
> base
> > > installation was a sinch and was all from the CD.
> > > However, after the base installation, when it rebooted and then came
> to
> > the
> > > package installation it couldn't use the CDRom, it wouldn't mount the
> > device
> > > saying that it was "not a block device".
> >
> > The SS2 (and AFAIK many other Sparcs) needs a CD drive that supports
> > a blocksize of 512 byte. I do not know what blocksize is used by the
> > Linux SCSI CD driver, may be 1024 oder 2048 or something like that,
> > but if you want to boot from CD the "Open Boot PROM" expects a
> > blocksize of 512 bytes. This is also the reason why bootdisks
> > created with "dd of=/dev/fd0 if=image.bin bs=512" work and disks
> > created with "... bs=1024" don't.
> >
> > I'm using a "Teac 532S" on my SS2 and I don't have any problems...
> >
> > > *The CDRom is actaully a burner, this shouldn't matter though should
> it?
> >
> > Hmm. If it's an old one or if it's a very cheap new one there could
> > be all sorts of problems. Better get something that is known to
> > work. I tested my "Teac 532S" with Open Boot PROM V2.4.1 and 2.9 ...
> >
> > > *Also, in the base installation, when it asks you do change the kernel
> > > modules, should I have tried to install generic SCSI support if it
> could
> > > already read my CDRom & hard drives. Well I did try but
> unsuccessfully.
> > > Should I not try and install modules at all?
> >
> > If it can read your HD and CD there is no need to install a driver
> > for it. And AFAIK every Sun box has a SCSI controller and the older
> > ones don't have anything else but SCSI so the kernel on the Debian
> > Sparc bootdisk should have SCSI support compiled in.
> >
> >
> > Greetings,
> > Andreas Behnert
> >
> >
> > --
> > To err is human; effective mayhem requires the root password :-)
> > --
> >
> >
> > --
> > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-request@lists.debian.org
> > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact
> > listmaster@lists.debian.org
>
>
> --
> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-request@lists.debian.org
> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact
> listmaster@lists.debian.org
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-request@lists.debian.org
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact
listmaster@lists.debian.org
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-request@lists.debian.org
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact
listmaster@lists.debian.org
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-request@lists.debian.org
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact
listmaster@lists.debian.org
Reply to: