On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 02:12:08PM -0500, Paul T. McNally wrote: > I did a reinstall. The first time I installed potato, the mouse was > all fd up, it sticks to the bottom of the screen and refuses to > com up. I can see the tip of the pointer on the bottom edge of the > screen. When that happened, I ran XF86Setup and changed > a couple settings on the mouse and I think the meer using XF86Setup > set the mouse right. Honestly I don't think it matttered what I > picked in XF86Setup, as long as I was not too far off based.
One possible solution is to find somebody with the same mouse and ask him hor his config. You could just copy the "pointer" section. > Now I'm a bit frustrated because XF86Setup won't even come up. > I can manipulate the window menu system with key combinations > from the keyboard, but when I choose XF86Setup, the hard drive grinds > a little bit and then nothing. I started XF86Setup from the command line > and I get "X11TransSocket UNIX Conect:can't connect: errno=111" > > and I get the message "unable to communicate with X server" > > I'm using the svga X Server for my card. But do you have the xserver-vga16 installed? AFAIK XF86Setup needs it because you choose your matching server _after_ this vga16 server was started. > The other really frustrating thing is when I bring up windows in XWindows, > the > top 1/4 to 1/3 of the window is above the top of my screen. Did you choose to use a "virtual desktop"? Phil
