Re: X Mouse doesn't work on 8500; how to accellerate X

2001-04-09 Thread Charles Sebold
On 16 Nisan 5761, Charles Sebold wrote: > No, I don't have those; I am running a 2.2.18 from kernel.org. > Where could I find those again? Nevermind, sorry, found them in your earlier post. -- Charles Sebold -- 16th of Nisan, 5761 -- Q: Why is Christmas just like a day at the office? A:

Re: X Mouse doesn't work on 8500; how to accellerate X

2001-04-09 Thread Charles Sebold
On 16 Nisan 5761, Michel Lanners wrote: >>> I will say that upgrading to XFree 4 (from woody) significantly >>> slowed the video further. > > I don't find XF4 slower than XF3... Dou you have the controlfb > patches in your kernel? Not sure whether they come with the debian > 2.2 kernel patches...

Re: X Mouse doesn't work on 8500; how to accellerate X

2001-04-09 Thread Michel Lanners
On 9 Apr, this message from Michel Dänzer echoed through cyberspace: > Charles Sebold wrote: > >> I will say that upgrading to XFree 4 (from woody) significantly slowed >> the video further. I don't find XF4 slower than XF3... Dou you have the controlfb patches in your kernel? Not sure whether

Re: X Mouse doesn't work on 8500; how to accellerate X

2001-04-09 Thread Andrew Sharp
MaX in the FaX wrote: > > Alle ore 01:25, lunedì 09 aprile 2001, Michael D. Crawford ha scritto: > > I have a fresh install of Debian on a Power Mac 8500. This is an "old > > world" machine, with ADB keyboard and mouse and a PowerPC 604 processor. > > > > Using the framebuffer server, X startx up

Re: X Mouse doesn't work on 8500; how to accellerate X

2001-04-09 Thread MaX in the FaX
Alle ore 01:25, lunedì 09 aprile 2001, Michael D. Crawford ha scritto: > I have a fresh install of Debian on a Power Mac 8500. This is an "old > world" machine, with ADB keyboard and mouse and a PowerPC 604 processor. > > Using the framebuffer server, X startx up without complaint but I can't > mo

Re: X Mouse doesn't work on 8500; how to accellerate X

2001-04-09 Thread Michel Lanners
On 8 Apr, this message from Michael D. Crawford echoed through cyberspace: > One more question - the X server started up fine as it was > configured by > default but does not have accellerated video. My Mac doesn't support > accellerated 3D but I think it does support 2D accelleration. Can I do

Re: X Mouse doesn't work on 8500; how to accellerate X

2001-04-09 Thread Michel Dänzer
Charles Sebold wrote: > > Maybe it will get available soon as .debs through the DRI > > packages... > > Looking forward to it... Duh, that was a thinko, sorry. The DRI packages won't ship the fbdev driver. I'm afraid you'll have to build yourself from CVS or alienate RPMs or whatever until the

Re: X Mouse doesn't work on 8500; how to accellerate X

2001-04-09 Thread Charles Sebold
On 16 Nisan 5761, Michel Dänzer wrote: > I have gotten a patch into 4.0.99.2 which not only remedies this by > switching to the new mishadow layer which only updates the > framebuffer contents periodically, it also adds RENDER and DGA > support to the fbdev driver. Great! I had seen a recent thr

Re: X Mouse doesn't work on 8500; how to accellerate X

2001-04-09 Thread Michel Dänzer
Charles Sebold wrote: > I will say that upgrading to XFree 4 (from woody) significantly slowed > the video further. Others have recently mentioned the slow GNOME > logout (which I disabled); several seconds to "dim" the screen for the > logout dialog box. Yikes. I don't recommend upgrading to X

Re: X Mouse doesn't work on 8500; how to accellerate X

2001-04-09 Thread Charles Sebold
On 15 Nisan 5761, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > One more question - the X server started up fine as it was > configured by default but does not have accellerated video. My Mac > doesn't support accellerated 3D but I think it does support 2D > accelleration. Can I do this with the framebuffer driv

X Mouse doesn't work on 8500; how to accellerate X

2001-04-08 Thread Michael D. Crawford
I have a fresh install of Debian on a Power Mac 8500. This is an "old world" machine, with ADB keyboard and mouse and a PowerPC 604 processor. Using the framebuffer server, X startx up without complaint but I can't move the mouse. /dev/mouse is linked to /dev/input/mice. The major and minor num