Re: Sound card question, mouse question
To add to what stephen said:
stephen.p.ryan@dartmouth.edu wrote:
>
> On 29 Aug, Christopher M. Wesneski wrote:
> > I recently learned how to setup my Plug-and-Pray modem using pnpdump and
> > isapnp.
> >
> > pnpdump > /etc/isapnp.conf (then select the correct settings)
> > isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf
> > setserial /dev/ttyS1 port 0x2f8 irq 3 uart 16550
> >
> > Everything works great. My question is, pnpdump also listed my sound
> > card. When I edited isapnp.conf to select the correct settings and ran
> > isapnp everything looks ok but the card doesn't work. Is there something
> > similar to setserial that I have to do after I run isapnp?
> >
> > Also I went out and bought a three button mouse so I could middle-click
> > cut-n-paste in xterms but I can't seem to get it to work. I have gpm
> > running and it works while not in X (at the console). But when I am in X
> > the middle button does nothing. It is a $0.50 serial port mouse
> > (GoldenImage) and it has a little switch on the bottom (which I have no
> > clue what it does) with one side labeled MS AM (which is the only way it
> > will work in Windows) and the other PC AT. Any suggestions?
>
> You might get a better response with better information in your
> question. What model is your sound card? Are the settings listed for
> it in /etc/isapnp.conf correct? Do you get any error messages when
> trying to use the sound card or does it just fail silently? I get a
> "Interrupt test on IRQ5 failed - device disabled" when my sound card
> doesn't work, meaning that Plug-and-Pray has in fact introduced an
> interrupt conflict into the system. Most importantly, does the kernel
> you're running have sound support? (I always compile custom kernels,
> so I don't remember if the default Debian kernel has sound support or
> not.) You may need to recompile your kernel with sound support on.
What is the output of 'cat /dev/sndstat' show? Can you do 'insmod
sound' and if so, does 'cat /proc/modules' confirm the sound driver as
being installed?
> As for your mouse, the switch on the bottom changes which protocol the
> mouse uses; have you read the 3-Button-Mouse HOWTO? (It's in
> /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/, and may have the information you need to decide
> where that switch belongs.) Also, you need to make sure that the
> information in your XF86Config matches your mouse hardware. You should
> tell X that you have whatever kind of mouse you have set the switch to.
I use my mouse in PC (MouseSystems) mode. Make sure your XF86Config
selects MouseSystem in the input section.
> --
> Stephen Ryan Debian GNU/Linux
> Mathematics graduate student, Dartmouth College
>
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Ed C.
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