This thread has travelled farther than I thought it would. :-) > Can't you try with 2.2.17 again? [and] > Did you by chance enable the New Input Layer in the 2.2.18 kernel?
This is somewhat moot -- before receiving your email, I had created yet-another 2.2.18 kernel and installed it, and now the mouse is working fine. Still, I was/am curious, so I checked my new .config file, and I couldn't see an option in there that seemed to correspond to the New Input Layer. I tried poking around by a few other means to (checking out the help docs on the various config options, rgrep "New Input Layer") and still didn't see it. > Display drivers and the mouse are orthogonal so this was to be expected. Yes, it's more or less what I was expecting as well. That doesn't mean I won't give it a try, troubleshooting being what it is and all. > > 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. > > That's right. Thanks very much for the confirmation. It's been driving me batty for weeks now. It's very important for me to be able to have simultaneous display. I do a lot of teaching, training and speaking at conferences, and I'd _much_ rather be able to project Linux onto the big screen than Windoze. :-) [My hardware is fine -- I can get simultaneous display working without a hitch on my Win98 boot.] I just tried it with the ati driver as well, and it doesn't seem to be able to handle simultaneous displays, either. Is there a driver that does? If I have to buy a new video card for my laptop in able to get this feature, then I will. (If I have to switch to a non-free X server, then I will do this, too, though I'd prefer to just get a new video card, even if the price is higher this way.) One minor problem: When I leave X and go back to text tty & console, my laptop screen is a _lot_ dimmer than it was before. Might this be a function of using the new ati driver? (I didn't notice this when I was using the r128 driver.) Regarding the original problem with the r128 driver provided in the 4.0.2 debs and its unresolved symbols, might this be fixed if I just "apt-get source xfree86-xserver" and compile this on my own machine? (Just a thought.) 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
