I'm having a lot of problems installing Bo. I have been sent three CDROMs, one marked 1.3 binaries, one marked source and one marked "Custom+extras". The one marked binaries and the "custom" one both seem to have the necessary to install Debian. Are there known differences? Am I right to use the binaries one?
The crunch is that I seem to have got a basic install up and running at last (nothing like Linux/Debian for finding problems huh: a failed interrupt handler on my old motherboard and a loose SCSI cable after that!) My hardware is twin Pentium 90MHz, ASUS P/I-P65UP5 motherboard, built-in IDE switched off, comm, lpt & FD controllers on and on their usual ports and IRQs, Adaptec 3940 (not U, not W) and #9motion771 video. Video is forced to IRQ15 using motherboard slot allocation set-up, first Adaptec SCSI channel picks 11 with second picking 10 which seems bizarre to me but I couldn't find a more robust setting. Mouse is PS2 using IRQ 12 and keyboard is 102key in UK/British layout. I think the problem is with those last two both of which seem to have been accepted correctly by the hardware of the basic bash keyboard and mouse handling. I can see a block cursor and can move it (a little slower than I would probably chose but fine), I also get the UK keymappings as far as I can see. Now if I launch XF86Setup the VGA graphic handler gets launched but seems to default to "Microsoft" though pointing correctly to /dev/psaux. The minute I touch the mouse the cursor jumps around and the display fo the cursor coordinates moves (though I can hardly get the mouse off 0 on the vertical). I can't set anything there and using the keyboard to get to the keyboard section gets me the dropdown list of keyboards but nothing I can do from there will get me anywhere, nothing except the final ctrl-alt-backspace which crashes out of the server with the message "The program is running on a different virtual terminal. Please switch to the correct virtual terminal" in a graphics message box and "X connection to :7.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). at the bottom. (I assume the latter is sensible record of my having crashed out.) Problem is that nothing I am doing is getting me an XF86Config file anywhere. Anyone tell me how to jump this little hurdle? Anyone got a working XF86Config file for a PS2 mouse and 102 key British keyboard running under simple VGA or S3? TIA, Chris Chris Evans, Senior Lecturer in Psychotherapy, Locum Consultant to the Prudence Skynner Family Therapy Clinic, St. George's Hospital Medical School, London University [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://psyctc.sghms.ac.uk/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
