Bill Patterson on Wed, 01 Jan 2003 22:01:07 -0500 |
Thanks to the people who have written me on this. I have decided to try Debian later with a different (or at least upgraded) machine. The problem is that--as I recall from two years ago when I installed Corel Linux on this same problem machine--I had to work with the Corel people who figured out that this machine was not current enough for the way Corel referenced the network. They had to give me specific fixes for it to recognize the old NIC. This new Debian install on this old machine had the same problem with the network. So I have concluded that it will be best for me to try the install after I have a machine available with newer hardware. Thanks again. Bill Jeff Abrahamson wrote: > On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 09:06:20AM -0500, Michael Leone wrote: > > Bill Patterson said: > > > Continuing, I could not find anything in /var/log/XFree86, so I > > > > turgon@mail:/var/log$ ls -la X* > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24970 2002-07-27 21:22 XFree86.0.log > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24968 2002-07-13 22:17 XFree86.6.log > > > > These are the messages X spits out, as it starts (and runs). > > > > > I played a lot of games with it, offering it a chance at each of the > > > (was it 16?) mouse protocols supported by Debian, and MY mouse, which > > > likes Red Hat, Windoze, and even Corel Linux, would not talk! > > > > Standard PS/2 connected (wheel) mice usually look like this, in > > /etc/X11/XF86Config-4: > > > > Section "InputDevice" > > Identifier "Default Mouse" > > Driver "mouse" > > Option "CorePointer" > > Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" > > Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" > > Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" > > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" > > EndSection > > Try > > ls -l /dev/psaux > > On my machine, this is > > crw------- 1 root root 10, 1 2002-12-27 18:40 /dev/psaux > > -- > Jeff > > Jeff Abrahamson <http://www.purple.com/jeff/> > GPG fingerprint: 1A1A BA95 D082 A558 A276 63C6 16BF 8C4C 0D1D AE4B > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature _________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.netisland.net/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.netisland.net/mailman/listinfo/plug
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