Subject: Re: G4 and USB mouse
From: Peter M. Bagnall (pete@surfaceeffect.com)
Date: Sun Jan 09 2000 - 06:48:59 MST
At 0:15 +0000 9/1/00, tom wrote:
>hello there, I was wondering if you could help me out. I have a 350mhz G4
>(yikes?-it has the latest motherboard type). I'm using a G3 USB mouse. I
>downloaded the latest kernel and Bootx, and installed everything OK.
>When I
>rebooted, when Xwindows started I could login, but could not use the
>mouse. I
>read an earlier post about getting mouseconfig4.0-1appc.rpm, in order
>for the
>mouse to function.
>
>Well, here is my problem. Can download it when in MacOS, mount the hfs+
>partition under linux, and then use it? I think not.
You should be able to mount hfs partitiions, but not hfs+. BTW if you can
get you mouse working, let me know how you did it, cause altough mine works
it behaves a little strangely. (But it's a contour unimouse so maybe it'll
be different).
The problem for anyone else who might know the answer is that it frequently
requires a triple click instead of double in windowmaker. I'm using Xpmac
(not the latest version but fairly recent). The strange thing though is
that xev reports all the mouse events correctly which makes me think it's
windowmaker. The other thing is that very occassionally the mouse and
keyboard lock up completely and I have to reboot, which I seem to remember
was discussed a while back. I don't remember this being resolved then, any
news since?
>Do I have to configure
>linux to connect to the internet and download, so that I have it on my root
>partition? I have tried to configuring it so I can connect, but I'm not sure
>where to start. I tried using minicom to work out what port my internal modem
>was (dev/ttyS1 ?), so that I could call up my ISP, work out how I log
>on, and
>then make a connect script for pppd and chat. Minicom says "initializing
>modem"
>when I usae /dev/ttyS1, but it then crashes and I can't enter any text. :?
my G3/350 uses /dev/ttyS0 but your h/w may be different. I've not tried
minicom, so I can't comment on that but I followed the directions on a
general linux site I found. Try http://axion.physics.ubc.ca/ppp-linux.html
just follow the instructions and you should be fine. One thing that caught
me out though when I first set this up was I tested my connection by
pinging a known IP address. Unknown to me however my ISP does not allow
ping packets so I thought I'd failed to get PPP working. Eventually I got
fed up and tried an FTP just for the hell of it and it worked fine.
>I'm not sure what to do. Is there an easier way to connect to the
>internet so I
>can ftp ..... Any help is greatly appreciated. Tom.
-- Peter M. Bagnall pete@surfaceeffect.com - http://www.surfaceeffect.com/
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