Re: Need help with M$ touchmouse

2014-12-07 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 12/ 7/14 03:55 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 06 December 2014 14:27:34 Alan Coopersmith did opine And Gene did reply: On 12/ 5/14 10:31 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: And it is still unloading the nv driver, which I_thought_ was the nvidia driver. "nv" is the old open source xf86-video-nv

Re: Need help with M$ touchmouse

2014-12-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 06 December 2014 15:09:31 Thomas Lübking did opine And Gene did reply: > On Samstag, 6. Dezember 2014 03:21:10 CEST, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Is it on git, or do I have to dl a tarball? > > Either. [1][2] > The problem rather is that you'll *have* to compile several packages > and very

Re: Need help with M$ touchmouse

2014-12-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 06 December 2014 14:27:34 Alan Coopersmith did opine And Gene did reply: > On 12/ 5/14 10:31 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > And it is still unloading the nv driver, which I_thought_ was the > > nvidia driver. > > "nv" is the old open source xf86-video-nv driver, which nvidia used to > pr

Re: Need help with M$ touchmouse

2014-12-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 06 December 2014 06:14:12 Peter Hutterer did opine And Gene did reply: > On 6/12/2014 12:33 , Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 05 December 2014 18:46:58 Peter Hutterer did opine > > > > And Gene did reply: > >> On 6/12/2014 01:56 , Gene Heskett wrote: > >>> On Thursday 04 December 201

Re: Need help with M$ touchmouse

2014-12-06 Thread Thomas Lübking
On Samstag, 6. Dezember 2014 03:21:10 CEST, Gene Heskett wrote: Is it on git, or do I have to dl a tarball? Either. [1][2] The problem rather is that you'll *have* to compile several packages and very much likely also need to update some build tools as well. Other than the fact that even th

Re: Need help with M$ touchmouse

2014-12-06 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 12/ 5/14 10:31 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: And it is still unloading the nv driver, which I_thought_ was the nvidia driver. "nv" is the old open source xf86-video-nv driver, which nvidia used to provide updates to, but just enough to get the system up and running to install their closed source

Re: Need help with M$ touchmouse

2014-12-06 Thread Peter Hutterer
On 6/12/2014 12:33 , Gene Heskett wrote: On Friday 05 December 2014 18:46:58 Peter Hutterer did opine And Gene did reply: On 6/12/2014 01:56 , Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 04 December 2014 23:03:38 Peter Hutterer did opine And Gene did reply: On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 09:43:44PM -0500, Gene

Re: Need help with M$ touchmouse

2014-12-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 05 December 2014 18:46:58 Peter Hutterer did opine And Gene did reply: > On 6/12/2014 01:56 , Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 04 December 2014 23:03:38 Peter Hutterer did opine > > > > And Gene did reply: > >> On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 09:43:44PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > >>> On Thu

Re: Need help with M$ touchmouse

2014-12-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 05 December 2014 17:01:56 Thomas Lübking did opine And Gene did reply: > On Freitag, 5. Dezember 2014 19:31:28 CEST, Gene Heskett wrote: > > (II) LoadModule: "nouveau" > > ... > > (EE) [drm] failed to open device > > See > http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/TroubleShooting/#index1h3 >

Re: Need help with M$ touchmouse

2014-12-05 Thread Peter Hutterer
On 6/12/2014 01:56 , Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 04 December 2014 23:03:38 Peter Hutterer did opine And Gene did reply: On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 09:43:44PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 04 December 2014 16:18:16 Peter Hutterer did opine And Gene did reply: On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at

Re: Need help with M$ touchmouse

2014-12-05 Thread Thomas Lübking
On Freitag, 5. Dezember 2014 19:31:28 CEST, Gene Heskett wrote: (II) LoadModule: "nouveau" ... (EE) [drm] failed to open device See http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/TroubleShooting/#index1h3 From what I've read so far, I'd just bet that the updated kernel drm mismatches the XOrg driver.

Re: Need help with M$ touchmouse

2014-12-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 05 December 2014 13:01:10 Gene Heskett did opine And Gene did reply: > On Friday 05 December 2014 12:42:24 Gene Heskett did opine > > And Gene did reply: > > On Friday 05 December 2014 12:23:19 Thomas Lط£آ¼bking did opine > > > > And Gene did reply: > > > On Freitag, 5. Dezember 2014 18

Re: Need help with M$ touchmouse

2014-12-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 05 December 2014 12:42:24 Gene Heskett did opine And Gene did reply: > On Friday 05 December 2014 12:23:19 Thomas Lأ¼bking did opine > > And Gene did reply: > > On Freitag, 5. Dezember 2014 18:12:09 CEST, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > using the nouveau driver. From a 3.16.0 kernel tree I ass

Re: Need help with M$ touchmouse

2014-12-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 05 December 2014 12:23:19 Thomas Lübking did opine And Gene did reply: > On Freitag, 5. Dezember 2014 18:12:09 CEST, Gene Heskett wrote: > > using the nouveau driver. From a 3.16.0 kernel tree I assume. > > Doesn't seem so. > > Posted log segment says, that you're trying to load nv, the

Re: Need help with M$ touchmouse

2014-12-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 05 December 2014 08:57:50 Thomas Lübking did opine And Gene did reply: > On Freitag, 5. Dezember 2014 03:43:44 CEST, Gene Heskett wrote: > > (EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOPUTCMAP: Invalid argument > > You might want to check whether there's a usable driver for your > graphics chip provided by even

Re: Need help with M$ touchmouse

2014-12-05 Thread Thomas Lübking
On Freitag, 5. Dezember 2014 18:12:09 CEST, Gene Heskett wrote: using the nouveau driver. From a 3.16.0 kernel tree I assume. Doesn't seem so. Posted log segment says, that you're trying to load nv, then unload it and ultimately seem to be running fbdev (what causes the mny error messages

Re: Need help with M$ touchmouse

2014-12-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 04 December 2014 23:03:38 Peter Hutterer did opine And Gene did reply: > On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 09:43:44PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 04 December 2014 16:18:16 Peter Hutterer did opine > > > > And Gene did reply: > > > On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 01:23:49PM -0500, Gene Hes

Re: Need help with M$ touchmouse

2014-12-05 Thread Thomas Lübking
On Freitag, 5. Dezember 2014 03:43:44 CEST, Gene Heskett wrote: (EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOPUTCMAP: Invalid argument You might want to check whether there's a usable driver for your graphics chip provided by even that version of Ubuntu. Cheers, Thomas ___ x

Re: Need help with M$ touchmouse

2014-12-04 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 09:43:44PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 04 December 2014 16:18:16 Peter Hutterer did opine > And Gene did reply: > > On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 01:23:49PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Greetings all; > > > > > > I have a wireless M$ Explorer Touchmouse, and the

Re: Need help with M$ touchmouse

2014-12-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 04 December 2014 16:18:16 Peter Hutterer did opine And Gene did reply: > On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 01:23:49PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > I have a wireless M$ Explorer Touchmouse, and the touch pad is > > buggier than a 10 day old carcass. > > > > Specifically,

Re: Need help with M$ touchmouse

2014-12-04 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 01:23:49PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > I have a wireless M$ Explorer Touchmouse, and the touch pad is buggier > than a 10 day old carcass. > > Specifically, the side scrolling is driving me crazy, and its not a long > trip. ;) > > When it works, its