George and Andy, Thanks again, guys. I will try some further experimantation, but facing the music and upgrading to Woody may be the best answer after all. I really appreciate your time and attention. Mike
---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Georg Koss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 18:05:29 +0200 >On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 11:42:06AM -0400, mmissett wrote: >> George, >> Thanks a lot for your reply, I really appreciate it, and >> will take a look at the settings you included. I guess, >> though, that you're using Woody (or Sid), because you say >Woody ... > >> you are running XFree86 4.1 and your configuration shows >> an ati driver. >XF4.1 uses framebuffer beacause of a bogus PCI ... which's modules I >had to configure in the kernel's framebuffer section. > >XF4.0.x uses drivers, that's right. > >> I have potato with XFree86 3.3, which has >> no ati (video) driver, and that's part of the problem. > >So probably you will have a look on www.xfree.org for 3.3.6 for that issue. > >> I'm trying to solve this without upgrading, which may >> simply be impossible. >Don't think so. When I started a year ago I had 3.3.6 ugly slow but > working, but I didn't remember the XF86Config, sorry. > >> (And which would, apparently, solve >> most, if not all, these problems.) >Woody is good working (and not far from getting "stable") so I >recommend this ;-). I personally had no problems for months (except >one little bug three days ago, that was on the list). > >> is a bit over my head (eg: getting the mouse to work on >> console?). >If you're on console (no X working, what you mentioned is your >problem) you should see a rectangular mouse-cursor at least if you >move your mouse. If that isn't viable configure the mouse with >gpmconfig (mouse-type IMPS/2 and repeat-mode raw works for my >USB-Logitech-mouse). > > >> The kernel, BTW, is recognizing the mouse on >> startup. >Then you should see a short blinking of that rectangular mouse-cursor >when the kernel goes up as well ;-) > >SY > >-- > >M.f.G. > >Georg Koss > >mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
