From: Derek.Bischoff%f1.n3641.z1@psybbs.durham.nc.us (Derek Bischoff) Subject: X386 mice and restart Date: 3 Sep 1993 17:25:02 GMT
Hello folks.
I am not on the Internet, and have to comb the bbs's
about to find any information that I need.
With much heartache, headache, and a few cartons of
cigarettes, I have successfully configured my display
to show me X. And let me start off by saying, I am impressed!
this looks at least as good as Xview, which I spent megabucks
for. I do however have a few problems to clear up, and
hope that someone would be good enough to give me some feedback.
First, I am running a HP 386/25 with 12Meg ram.
I have SLS 1.0, running 0.99.pl6-30
I have tcp/ip running well, with a 3c503 card attached.
I have (your choice) a HP Bus mouse (the old style, not ps/2)
and a microsoft serial mouse.
1. my Serial ports are autoconfigure in the kernel and they come up
with the same memory and IRQ as MSD.EXE does.
whether or not my Xconfig file says :
Busmouse "/dev/mouse"
Microsoft "/dev/ttys0" or
Microsoft "/dev/ttys1" I get the same response:
When I run X I can see the mouse cursor, but it just does not respond.
2. as I said, tcp/ip works great. (what performance!) however
when I run X it says "Setting TCP SO_LINGER: Protocol not available.
no SIOCGIFCONF
Where did I go wrong?
3. when I do a ctrl-alt-F2 to get another screen, it works great.
how do I jump back to tty1? that is , w/o getting the text config
screen. (I want to return to X)
4. Lastly, I have literally, 4 3 ring binders of FAQ's and README's
(my wife thinks I'm nuts, and I should just buy Unix if I want it)
But I enjoy seeing the ins and outs, being I admin SCO and HP/UX at
work, and know little about how everything works together.
Is there a FAQ that focuses on troubleshooting? Linux
has many verbose errormessages, and if I knew where to look
when I get one, it would have aided my installation.
Oh, and thanks to all that helped make Linux possible. I hope
to do serious development soon on it so I can donate to the cause
as well.
(PS if anyone gives me an Internet address to find info,
again, I have no access. Would someone please put up a BBS
that remains quit current? I will call just about anywhere
in the US)
Thank you to Unix people of vision. :)
... Sincerely, Derek