From: hans@mo.hobby.nl (Hans Oey) Subject: Re: Linux + X11 on PC notebook Date: 7 Nov 1992 16:07:47 GMT
jem@snakemail.hut.fi (Johan Myreen) writes:
>In article <1992Nov2.162544.9239@news.uit.no> johnm@stud.cs.uit.no (John Markus Bjoerndalen) writes:
>>Installing went smooth. No real problems, except that I couldn't get
>>the trackball to work in X.
>>Note: The trackball is acting as a PS/2 mouse, so the only thing you
>>should need to do, is getting one of the PS/2 mouse patches, or wait
>>for 0.98.3 to be stable. (It correctly detected my trackball, and I
>>was able to get data from it. So the only problem now is to find out
>>what kind of mousetype I should tell X that it is. )
>Get the PS/2 mouse protocol converter from
>nic.funet.fi:/pub/OS/Linux/tools/mconv.c, start it up in /etc/local.rc
>and then tell X you have a Microsoft mouse.
I just bought myself a Compaq notebook. First thing to do
was to erase DOS and MS-Windows and install Linux with X.
No problem. The builtin trackball acts as a Microsoft mouse
connected to COM2 (configurable). No need to fool with
busmouses or mconv.
Biggest disappointment is that standard VGA seems to be supported
by Xmono only. Even standard VGA should be capable to display
some colors at 640x480. Any alternatives to hacking the server?