----- Forwarded message from Richard Dice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- From: Richard Dice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Xfree 4.0.2 driver module problem for ATI R128 (unstable) (Debian Bug report logs - #81007) Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 10:31:30 -0500 Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Dice Consultants Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.17 i686) X-Accept-Language: en
Basile & Branden: Hello! I read the following web page with great interest: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=81007&repeatmerged=yes I experienced the same problem that Basile did, and by switching over to the "ati" driver (as Branden suggested), I regained use of XFree86 4.0.2. Hurray! However... In doing so, I've lost control of my mouse. The touchpad and the eraser-head mouse-like devices on my laptop (Dell Inspiron 4000) are completely non-responsive under X, and the PS/2 mouse that I've got plugged into the back of the computer goes completely nonlinear and nonfunctional with the switch to the "ati" driver. I was wondering if this sounds at all familiar to either of you, and if a solution is known. The relevant portion of my XF86Config-4 file is... ......... Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "CorePointer" Option "Protocol" "PS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" EndSection ......... ... and ls -l /dev/psaux gives me ......... crw------- 1 root root 10, 1 Dec 22 00:54 /dev/psaux ......... This all seems pretty normal to me. However, I can't claim that this all is a controlled experiment. In the time that my XFree86 4.0.1 was down with the attempted 4.0.2 upgrade, I recompiled my kernel to Linux 2.2.18 and also tried installing the Xig X package as well. The kernel recompile was with options that had always worked for me on my 2.2.17 kernel, but it's always possible that Xig left crud hanging around when I de-installed it that could interfer with Xfree86 4.0.X. Anyhow... obviously, with the kind of radical stuff I've done, there is plenty of room for random, hard-to-figure-out errors. But if either of you are aware of a known mouse issue with the ati driver attempt, please let me know. (btw, I tried the "vga" driver as well -- the same thing happened with the mouse) Btw... do either of you have any experience with trying to get XFree86 to provide output to a notebook's LCD screen and an external video device (monitor, data projector, etc.) _simultaneously_? I've been fighting with this for weeks. I'm starting to think that the r128 driver that I had been using simply can't provide this capability. Cheers, Richard -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Dice * Personal 519 635 9568 * Fax 519 635 9569 ShadNet Creator * http://shadnet.shad.ca/ * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Occasional Writer, HotWired * http://www.hotwired.com/webmonkey/ "squeeze the world 'til it's small enough to join us heel to toe" - jesus jones ----- End forwarded message ----- -- G. Branden Robinson | Suffer before God and ye shall be Debian GNU/Linux | redeemed. God loves us, so He makes us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | suffer Christianity. http://deadbeast.net/~branden/ | -- Aaron Dunsmore
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