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- From: hans@mo.hobby.nl (Hans Oey)
- Subject: Re: Linux + X11 on PC notebook
- Message-ID: <1992Nov7.160747.1066@mo.hobby.nl>
- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 16:07:47 GMT
- References: <1992Nov2.132049.22680@irisa.fr> <1992Nov2.162544.9239@news.uit.no> <JEM.92Nov3104808@lk-hp-6.hut.fi>
- Organization: Makkee & Oey
- Lines: 28
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- jem@snakemail.hut.fi (Johan Myreen) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov2.162544.9239@news.uit.no> johnm@stud.cs.uit.no (John Markus Bjoerndalen) writes:
-
- >>Installing went smooth. No real problems, except that I couldn't get
- >>the trackball to work in X.
-
- >>Note: The trackball is acting as a PS/2 mouse, so the only thing you
- >>should need to do, is getting one of the PS/2 mouse patches, or wait
- >>for 0.98.3 to be stable. (It correctly detected my trackball, and I
- >>was able to get data from it. So the only problem now is to find out
- >>what kind of mousetype I should tell X that it is. )
-
- >Get the PS/2 mouse protocol converter from
- >nic.funet.fi:/pub/OS/Linux/tools/mconv.c, start it up in /etc/local.rc
- >and then tell X you have a Microsoft mouse.
-
- I just bought myself a Compaq notebook. First thing to do
- was to erase DOS and MS-Windows and install Linux with X.
- No problem. The builtin trackball acts as a Microsoft mouse
- connected to COM2 (configurable). No need to fool with
- busmouses or mconv.
-
- Biggest disappointment is that standard VGA seems to be supported
- by Xmono only. Even standard VGA should be capable to display
- some colors at 640x480. Any alternatives to hacking the server?
- --
- Hans Oey
- hans@mo.hobby.nl
-