Subject: Re: G4 and USB mouse
From: tom (tom@plummy.mwfree.net)
Date: Thu Jan 13 2000 - 16:58:57 MST
Thanks for the help mate, much appreciated. I hope you sort out your
mouse, I'mn
a newbie so I'm not really in a position to offer advice.I was wondering
if you
knew how to mount a zip disk under YDL? I'm not sure which device to
mount, and
there is no mention of it in my fstab file. I tried playing around with mount.
Anyway, sorry to trouble you, any help appreciated. Tom.
"Peter M. Bagnall" wrote:
> 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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