Subject: Re: USB keyboard and mouse with Kernel higher than 2.2.6
From: Dan Burcaw (dburcaw@terraplex.com)
Date: Sun Jan 02 2000 - 16:20:56 MST
Follow the instructions pertaining to USB keyboards and mice near the
bottom of our kernel upgrade document:
http://devel.yellowdoglinux.com/rp_kernel.shtml.
Regards,
Dan
> Hi!
>
> I'm running YDL on a G3/350 b&w for one month now using a precompiled Kernel
> (2.2.6-16bpmac). Everything works fine except for the USB printer and USB Floppy,
> so I tried to use a newer Kernel. Here the trouble starts:
>
> When one of these Kernels (I tried quite a few... 2.2.10, 2.2.12, 2.2.13,
> 2.2.14pre9, even some of the later 2.3.xx kernels...) started successfully, the
> keymapping is all messed up and the mouse doesn't even work at all. (Not only on
> the console - I managed to start an X-server and keyboard and mouse behaved the
> same way)
> I tried some patches and replacements of the files in the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/
> directory which I found on the www.linuxppc.org server but they didn't work.
>
> So does anybody have the same configuration (G3/350 b&w, Apple USB Keyboard, Apple
> USB Mouse), is running a kernel higher than 2.2.6, and could send me his
> XF86config, all the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/ directory (Is it neccessary at all to
> change files in this dir???), and - most important of all - his keymapping for
> both console and X-server?
>
> Any other help in this matter is also highly appreciated since I'm a newbie and
> none of the linux people I know could help me.
>
> Cu all!
> Wiebke
>
>
Dan
Terra Soft Solutions, Inc.
Yellow Dog Linux
"The Ultimate Companion for a Dedicated Server"
http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/
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