From: mhbrekke@iastate.edu (Monty H. Brekke) Subject: Re: Problems with XFree86 and S3 server Date: 14 Nov 1992 01:23:39 GMT
In article <JEM.92Nov13120846@lk-hp-6.hut.fi> jem@snakemail.hut.fi (Johan Myreen) writes:
>In article <BxL9JL.2JE@news.iastate.edu> mhbrekke@iastate.edu (Monty H. Brekke) writes:
>
>>server (i.e. no XS3) everything works right except that the mouse
>>driver is not being loaded. I have a 3-button Microsoft mouse on COM1.
>>Could someone tell me the Xconfig setting for this mouse?
>
>There is no mouse driver for serial mice. The X server talks directly
>to the mouse via the serial drivers. Your Xconfig should say something
>like
>
>Microsoft "/dev/ttys0"
>
I managed to get the mouse running. I forgot that I had changed it
to COM2 after a system reconfiguration. Also, the serial ports on
my machine start at /dev/ttys1, so I needed "Microsoft "/dev/ttys2"
in my Xconfig. I still can't get the color server to work properly,
however. It comes up, but the characters are just blocks. Some characters
make a block in the foreground color, and some in the background color.
I seem to recall that someone else had the same problem, but don't know
what the solution was. Also, when I move a window the background is
not refreshed. It just leaves a ghost of the windoow in the old location.
(The ghost is white, if this helps at all).
I also have a question about the xterms. When I run more or cat it
comes up with a message about something to do with tcp/ip. (I'm not
in front of my machine right now, and don't remember what the exact
message is). Do I *need* to compile in TCP/IP to run X properly?
I get the same behavior with and without the -pn option to startx.
Thanks for all your help.
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