Subject: Re: 2.2.12 Kernel video Woes
From: Rob Comstock (robc@kla-tencor.com)
Date: Tue Oct 26 1999 - 09:46:47 MDT
Tom:
Good notes on USB mouse can be found at:
http://www.loomer.com/linuxppc/#lombard
Ciao
Rob
Tom Tarka wrote:
>
> Followup: the program i was thinking of is xvidtune. Unfortunately,
> I can't
> get to using because I'm running into a problem which is almost
> (but not quite) answered in the FAQ:
>
> I can't use my USB mouse on my G4. I've edited the /etc/sysconfig/keyboard
>
> and changed that over to adb (and can then use the keyboard just fine) but
> I can't figure out how to get the mouse to work. Have tried numerous
> things, including: running mouseconfig and setting my mouse to be
> an ADB mouse, then restarting gpm, doing this in conjunction with linking
> /dev/mouse to /dev/adbmouse, just linking /dev/mouse to /dev/adbmouse
> etc.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> thanks,
> t
>
> Tom Tarka wrote:
>
> > Dilemma:
> >
> > I have an Apple 17" display on which the resize buttons don't work
> > (i.e. i can't resize the displayed area to fit the screen, resulting in
> > a
> > very tiny "screen" and lots of black space).
> >
> > Currently, the displayed area actually fits my monitor almost perfectly,
> > but
> > when I upgraded to a new 2.2.12 kernel -- which actually supported my
> > ATI 128 Card -- I needed to run Xconfigurator and found none of the
> > displays to "fit" my screen.
> >
> > I know there's some sort of X program that allows you to move your
> > "screen" around w/i your display, but the last time I tried it, it
> > didn't
> > work and I've promptly forgotten what program it was.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > tom
This archive was generated by hypermail 2a24 : Tue Nov 02 1999 - 16:20:58 MST