Michel Dänzer wrote: > Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > > I'll look into the signal 11 in xf86cfg. > > I wouldn't bother about it. > > If you want to try the ati driver, copying the fbdev Device Section and adding > Option "UseFBDev" may work. Good luck :)
Hmm, given your warning, maybe I'll stick to fbdev for now. It's fast enough for everything- except hashing the screen during a GNOME logout, but I don't do that too often. :-) > > And it fails with 2.2.18pre21 for two reasons: the fb doesn't give it a > > default mode (so I need to set it), > > Note that the 3.3 way of using a mode "default" doesn't work anymore. You need > to use an empty Modes line (or none at all) for the fbdev driver to use the > default mode. Okay, commented it out. > > and I haven't figured out how to cenfigure it for the new input layer stuff > > (gpm fails too). > > Have you looked at http://ppclinux.apple.com/~benh/ and followed the link to > Franz Sirl's page on the new input layer? Akhaaa! Very nice. Now gpm and X work great! And I have 3-button emulation! Now I can use prebuilt Debian kernel-image packages! I'm very happy. > > And the ati driver locks hard with 2.2.15, but I was warned. (Can't use > > 2.4 full-time until the ipmasq package supports it.) > > It doesn't? Why not? Differences between ipchains and netfilter. From /usr/share/doc/ipmasq/ipmasq.txt.gz: 3.6 is tenatively slated to add support for the netfilter kernel interface found in later 2.3 and 2.4 kernels. For more information about netfilter, please see http://netfilter.kernelnotes.org/. Thanks again very much! -Adam P. Welcome to the best software in the world today cafe!
