From: roman@eskimo.com (Bill Roman) Subject: Re: "Dream" Machine setup complete. listing follows: Date: 21 May 1993 14:23:40 GMT
>Diamond Viper 2MB VESA Local Bus Video Card
Xfree86 is explicitly not supporting Diamond video cards because Diamond
won't release essential programming information. You probably want to
find an alternative.
>Microsoft Mouse (NOT the one that looks like it has been in an oven)
I have a Mouse Systems PC Mouse III - it is a three button optical mouse
(the only optical mouse I know of for PC), comes with its own serial card
which is capable of using the extra IRQs of the AT bus (handy if you fill
up IRQ 2-7), and works with Xfree86 1.2 and SLS Linux 1.02 (kernel 0.99p9).
(You will have to make an easy patch to the kernel if you use a nonstandard
I/O address or IRQ).
--
Bill Roman (songdog!roman@eskimo.com) Another happy hacker running Linux
"That's our advantage at Microsoft; we set the standards and we can
change them." - Karen Hargrove of Microsoft's Advanced Technology
division to Andrew Binstock, editor of UNIX Review, Fall '92 Comdex.