Re: Trying to configure X
/dev/psaux
That's the mouse device you want (/dev/mouse might be a symlink to this
check woth ls -l /dev/mouse).
The server for the card should definately be XF86_SVGA, you should be a
ware that there are diferences between the X server ad the driver for your
videocard!
Ron Rademaker
On Fri, 19 May 2000, Ron Stordahl wrote:
> Questions arising during xf86config:
>
> Mouse--I have a 3 button PS/2 mouse so I select "4 PS/2 Mouse". Since it
> has 3 buttons I choose not to emulate 3 buttons. So good so far, but now it
> asks for the full device name. I have no idea. It suggests /dev/tty00
> which seems unlikely. Just pressing enter will default to /dev/mouse. This
> seems reasonable, but my recollection is that a response to this question
> previously said I need to enter /dev/psaux. I have looked through the
> install doc and it does not answer this question.
>
> Selection of the card. I have a Jaton Video-67pro PCI which is not listed,
> however the chip on the card says Trident 3DImage975 which is in the table
> showing the driver is the "3dimage975". Looks good, so I select that which
> is number 651.
>
> Now I am at the point which I must determine which server to run. My
> choices are:
>
> 1 XF86_Mono
> 2 XF86_VGA16
> 3 XF86-SVGA
> 4 The accelerated servers.....
> 5 "Choose the server from the card definition, XF86_SVGA"
>
> None of these seem to be good choices, since mine appears to be "3dimage975"
> I would pick XF86_SVGA, which appears in the list after the card definitions
> for many many cards, but since for my card it explicitly noted "3dimage975"
> it would not seem to be correct to pick XF86_SVGA. I should note that in a
> failed configuration prior to this e-mail I did just that, and it didn't
> work.
>
> So what do to?
>
> Ron
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