Subject: Re: Contour Designs USB UniMouse and CS 1.1 on bronze PB
From: Dan Burcaw (dburcaw@terraplex.com)
Date: Sun Aug 29 1999 - 16:14:09 MDT
USB is not supported on the bronze PBs. If you want to use USB ports on
your bronze, you'll need to compile the latest kernel. I'm not certain if
it has bronze support, however. I do know that the development kernels
2.3.x have bronze support..
Dan
On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Peter Foster wrote:
> Based on the blurb from Contour Design and Terra Soft from Aug 6,
> http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/news/1999-08-06.shtml,
> I have been trying to get the Contour UniMouse 3-button USB mouse working
> on my bronze PB with CS 1.1. The mouse works fine on the Mac side of
> things.
>
> Countour has provided a kernel (2.2.6-16bpmac, rather than the
> 2.2.6-16apmac? that came with YDCS 1.1) and an RPM at
> http://www.contourdesign.com/unidrivers.htm
>
> I put the kernel in my Mac System Folder and named it vmlinux. I rebooted
> linux with the new kernel going, so I installed the rpm provided by
> Contour. No mouse. I did mouseconfig in various ways (1 and 3 button ADB
> and USB mice), but if I chose a USB mouse (followed by Xconfigurator) then
> X refused to start. Choosing an ADB mouse gave me X, my trackpad, and no
> UniMouse.
>
> Is this the way to go about it? Is there a better way? Is there a way
> that works? Should I go to the trouble of getting a newer kernel (I'm a
> newbie at linux)?
>
> On the brighter side, after reading through the last month's worth of
> these archives from this list I have picked up some great tips. The tip
> that suggested using trackpad.c to cure my overly sensitive trackpad was
> much appreciated.
>
> Peter Foster
> Laboratory of Molecular Systematics
> Smithsonian Institution
>
>
>
>
Dan
Yellow Dog Linux for Apple G3 and PowerPC
email: dburcaw@yellowdoglinux.com
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