Hi All, This Linux wannabe needs some help before he gives up on Linux altogether. I'm trying to configure my Xserver with SaX, and this is proving to be VERY frustrating. The two-button Microsoft Basic mouse behaves very erratically. The cursor reacts reliably, but the mouse buttons don't. If I press F10 to activate the menu, then click anywhere to deactivate the menu, the mouse is good for ONE (more) click. One time I clicked on the "Next" button and sax advanced to the next device properly. Then, I moved the mouse to a different screen position and clicked. What?? The "Next" button depressed as if the cursor were positioned over it (which it wasn't), but sax did not advance -- nothing -- just a button going down and up, down and up. That's neat! Could it have something to do with the device it is linked to? Should I use /dev/ttyS0 or /dev/mouse? My video card is a Boca Basic Super VGA (ISA) card with a Cirrus Logic chip. Boca is not listed in the devices under the "Card" tab, so I have chosen Generic -> SVGA. My DTK (VGA) monitor is likewise not listed, and there is no choice for Generic. What do I choose in this instance? I am running an Intel Pentium w/ 48M RAM and am starting Linux via loadlin from a Win95 DOS mode boot. Should I boot from a Linux boot disk? Also, I noticed when I launch SaX it says something like, "scanning failed ... using XF86_VGA16". (My memory is not photographic.) I think this would indicate that SaX doesn't care for the SVGA config. ?? I've tried changing it .. at least I thought so. I've been thru it so many times now, I'm not sure what I've accomplished. I'm sure my dreams will be invaded. Does anyone have any suggestions? If it weren't for the fact that I promised a friend of mine that I'd set up a new multiuser system for him (and remove his dependence on his antique PC-MOS O.S.), I think I'd knuckle under and stay with Kro$oft. Eeeewwwww! TIA, Harland Grimes ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Try XF86Setup. If that fails fall back to xf86config. Sax does not always work. prometheuss@juno.com wrote:
Hi All,
This Linux wannabe needs some help before he gives up on Linux altogether.
I'm trying to configure my Xserver with SaX, and this is proving to be VERY frustrating.
The two-button Microsoft Basic mouse behaves very erratically. The cursor reacts reliably, but the mouse buttons don't. If I press F10 to activate the menu, then click anywhere to deactivate the menu, the mouse is good for ONE (more) click. One time I clicked on the "Next" button and sax advanced to the next device properly. Then, I moved the mouse to a different screen position and clicked. What?? The "Next" button depressed as if the cursor were positioned over it (which it wasn't), but sax did not advance -- nothing -- just a button going down and up, down and up. That's neat! Could it have something to do with the device it is linked to? Should I use /dev/ttyS0 or /dev/mouse?
My video card is a Boca Basic Super VGA (ISA) card with a Cirrus Logic chip. Boca is not listed in the devices under the "Card" tab, so I have chosen Generic -> SVGA. My DTK (VGA) monitor is likewise not listed, and there is no choice for Generic. What do I choose in this instance?
I am running an Intel Pentium w/ 48M RAM and am starting Linux via loadlin from a Win95 DOS mode boot. Should I boot from a Linux boot disk? Also, I noticed when I launch SaX it says something like, "scanning failed ... using XF86_VGA16". (My memory is not photographic.) I think this would indicate that SaX doesn't care for the SVGA config. ?? I've tried changing it .. at least I thought so. I've been thru it so many times now, I'm not sure what I've accomplished. I'm sure my dreams will be invaded.
Does anyone have any suggestions? If it weren't for the fact that I promised a friend of mine that I'd set up a new multiuser system for him (and remove his dependence on his antique PC-MOS O.S.), I think I'd knuckle under and stay with Kro$oft. Eeeewwwww!
TIA, Harland Grimes
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I had the same problem until I turned off the GPM.. try gpm -t -ps2 -m /dev/mouse & ofcourse you will have to put in the right dev and Im not sure if you are runing a ps2 mouse or not.. this worked for me Ron
Hi All,
This Linux wannabe needs some help before he gives up on Linux altogether.
I'm trying to configure my Xserver with SaX, and this is proving to be VERY frustrating.
The two-button Microsoft Basic mouse behaves very erratically. The cursor reacts reliably, but the mouse buttons don't. If I press F10 to activate the menu, then click anywhere to deactivate the menu, the mouse is good for ONE (more) click. One time I clicked on the "Next" button and sax advanced to the next device properly. Then, I moved the mouse to a different screen position and clicked. What?? The "Next" button depressed as if the cursor were positioned over it (which it wasn't), but sax did not advance -- nothing -- just a button going down and up, down and up. That's neat! Could it have something to do with the device it is linked to? Should I use /dev/ttyS0 or /dev/mouse?
My video card is a Boca Basic Super VGA (ISA) card with a Cirrus Logic chip. Boca is not listed in the devices under the "Card" tab, so I have chosen Generic -> SVGA. My DTK (VGA) monitor is likewise not listed, and there is no choice for Generic. What do I choose in this instance?
I am running an Intel Pentium w/ 48M RAM and am starting Linux via loadlin from a Win95 DOS mode boot. Should I boot from a Linux boot disk? Also, I noticed when I launch SaX it says something like, "scanning failed ... using XF86_VGA16". (My memory is not photographic.) I think this would indicate that SaX doesn't care for the SVGA config. ?? I've tried changing it .. at least I thought so. I've been thru it so many times now, I'm not sure what I've accomplished. I'm sure my dreams will be invaded.
Does anyone have any suggestions? If it weren't for the fact that I promised a friend of mine that I'd set up a new multiuser system for him (and remove his dependence on his antique PC-MOS O.S.), I think I'd knuckle under and stay with Kro$oft. Eeeewwwww!
TIA, Harland Grimes
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On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, prometheuss@juno.com was reputed to have said:
I'm trying to configure my Xserver with SaX, and this is proving to be VERY frustrating.
If you can't get SaX to work, then try 'xf86config'. You will have to know something about the horizontal and vertical refresh rates of your monitor as it will prompt for the range of frequency values. This method works many times when SaX fails. Also, you must kill gpm if it's running before you enter X. If you forget to do so, then exit back to console (Ctrl-Fn where n is the number of the virtual console you want) then enter 'gpm -k' or '/etc/rc.d/gpm stop'. F7 will get you back to X. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- John Karns jkarns@csd.net -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
I had a hard time configuring X also. What I did is use xf86config and enter all my monitor stuff and define a default tnt2 ultra card. Once that was done, I went into XF86Setup. Here I tabbed around using the tab and space keys until I found a good setting for my mouse. I have an Intellimouse, and if it was moved while in XF86Setup, until it was set right, I had to restart the setup. I also defined my default resolution, and set my video card to the correct card. For some reason, I couldn't set my Horiz and Vert sync for my monitor in XF86Setup, so I did it in config. Also, I could get the mouse set correctly in xf86config, so I had to do it in XF86Setup. darn, Hope I didn't replace XF86Setup with xf86config anywhere. Here's my usual method: Try SaX, if not, then try XF86Setup. If you have to, use xf86config. This was real hard for me to get used to, and you HAVE to know all your correct settings. This usually means having hardware manuals handy. Hope this helps, Justin On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, John Karns wrote:
On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, prometheuss@juno.com was reputed to have said:
I'm trying to configure my Xserver with SaX, and this is proving to be VERY frustrating.
If you can't get SaX to work, then try 'xf86config'. You will have to know something about the horizontal and vertical refresh rates of your monitor as it will prompt for the range of frequency values. This method works many times when SaX fails.
Also, you must kill gpm if it's running before you enter X. If you forget to do so, then exit back to console (Ctrl-Fn where n is the number of the virtual console you want) then enter 'gpm -k' or '/etc/rc.d/gpm stop'. F7 will get you back to X.
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* John Karns (jkarns@csd.net) [20000113 02:48]:
Also, you must kill gpm if it's running before you enter X.
It ain't necessarily so :-) For normal PS/2 mice it's sufficient to rum gpm
in repeater mode and set X to use /dev/gpmdata as device. Thus you get cut
and paste on the console as in X. I haven't been able to get this working
with imps/2 mice, i.e. wheel mice.
Note that this only works if you start X manually via startx. If you use the
graphical login, i.e. boot to runlevel 3, gpm gets stopped automatically as
it wont work then.
Philipp
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