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- From: mhbrekke@iastate.edu (Monty H. Brekke)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Problems with XFree86 and S3 server
- Message-ID: <BxoMJG.Coo@news.iastate.edu>
- Date: 14 Nov 92 01:23:39 GMT
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- In article <JEM.92Nov13120846@lk-hp-6.hut.fi> jem@snakemail.hut.fi (Johan Myreen) writes:
- >In article <BxL9JL.2JE@news.iastate.edu> mhbrekke@iastate.edu (Monty H. Brekke) writes:
- >
- >>server (i.e. no XS3) everything works right except that the mouse
- >>driver is not being loaded. I have a 3-button Microsoft mouse on COM1.
- >>Could someone tell me the Xconfig setting for this mouse?
- >
- >There is no mouse driver for serial mice. The X server talks directly
- >to the mouse via the serial drivers. Your Xconfig should say something
- >like
- >
- >Microsoft "/dev/ttys0"
- >
-
- I managed to get the mouse running. I forgot that I had changed it
- to COM2 after a system reconfiguration. Also, the serial ports on
- my machine start at /dev/ttys1, so I needed "Microsoft "/dev/ttys2"
- in my Xconfig. I still can't get the color server to work properly,
- however. It comes up, but the characters are just blocks. Some characters
- make a block in the foreground color, and some in the background color.
- I seem to recall that someone else had the same problem, but don't know
- what the solution was. Also, when I move a window the background is
- not refreshed. It just leaves a ghost of the windoow in the old location.
- (The ghost is white, if this helps at all).
-
- I also have a question about the xterms. When I run more or cat it
- comes up with a message about something to do with tcp/ip. (I'm not
- in front of my machine right now, and don't remember what the exact
- message is). Do I *need* to compile in TCP/IP to run X properly?
- I get the same behavior with and without the -pn option to startx.
-
- Thanks for all your help.
-
-
-
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