From: jhgillespie@ucdavis.edu (John Gillespie) Subject: ?mouse/X problem on TI Travelmate Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1993 15:09:24 GMT
I just finished my initial Linux experience by installing SLS 1.01 on
a TI TravelMate 4000 WinDX2 laptop. It was amazing: everything worked
without a single glitch...until X. I used X386.mono (X386 wasn't
happy), ran startx, got a twm screen (I assume: there was an x cursor
and a nice background), then came xclock which got as far as drawing a
rectangle and waiting for my mouse click...then nothing. I assume the
problem is that X isn't getting anything from my mouse. Mashing a
bunch keys did nothing, so maybe X didn't know about my keyboard
either. (I'm new to X as well as Linux, so I don't know if keys help
at this point.) I tried every combination of entries in Xconfig that
I could think of (e.g. PS/2 "/dev/(bmouseps2, ps2aux, bmousems,...)").
Nothing worked. The computer appeared to be in lala land at this point.
Alt-F? didn't get me to another screen, Cnt-C did nothing, etc. A
final thing that may be relevant is that during boot I got the
message: "PS/2 type pointing device detected and installed".
Any ideas. Assume--correctly--that I am an idiot. No suggestion
is too obvious or elementary. Thanks.
John
jhgillespie@ucdavis.edu
p.s.
Here is what msd says about my mouse:
Mouse Hardware: Logitech PS/2 Mouse
Driver Manufacturer: Microsoft
DOS Driver Type: IBM PS/2 Mouse
Driver File Type: .COM File
DOS Driver Version: 8.22
Mouse IRQ: 12
Number of Mouse Buttons: 2
Horizontal Sensitivity: 50
Mouse to Cursor Ratio: 1 : 1
Vertical Sensitivity: 50
Mouse to Cursor Ratio: 1 : 1
Threshold Speed: 50
Mouse Language: English
Path to MOUSE.INI: C:\UTILS\MOUSE.INI
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Here is my Xconfig:
RGBPath "/usr/X386/lib/X11/rgb"
FontPath "/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
Keyboard
AutoRepeat 500 5
Xleds 1 2 3
ServerNumLock
DontZap
PS/2 "/dev/ps2aux"
vga2
Virtual 800 600
ViewPort 0 0
Modes "640x480"
ModeDB
# clock horzontal timing vertical timing
"640x480" 25 640 672 768 800 480 490 492 525
28 640 672 768 800 480 490 492 525
======================================================
Here is what startx spewed out:
Setting TCP SO_LINGER: Protocol not available
no SIOCGIFCONF
XFree86 Version 1.2 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 5000)
Configured drivers:
VGA2 (monochrome VGA):
et4000, et3000, pvga1, gvga, tvga8900c, tvga9000, tvga8900b,
generic
HGA2 (monochrome HGA):
hga6845
(using VT number 7)
Mouse: type: PS/2, device: /dev/ps2aux
FontPath set to
"/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
VGA2: generic (mem: 64k (using 64k) numclocks: 4)
VGA2: clocks: 25.2 28.3 0.0 0.0
VGA2: Mode "640x480": mode clock = 28.0, clock used = 28.3
VGA2: Virtual resolution set to 800x600
VGA2: Using non-banked mono vga mode
XCsetroot, written by Thomas Wu and Davor Matic (c) 1990, MIT Fishbowl