For your USB question, I've compiled a 2.2.18 kernel on my debian potato in
order to use a USB mouse (and a internel trackpoint in the same time).
First I can tell you that it works really good. I'm able to hot-plug and
hot-unplug the mouse and that's a good point for a laptop.
There's already USB support in the potato kernel but you need to modify a
makefile to see it when you do make xconfig. I don't know if it works for a
USB mouse (certainly) because I've figured out HowTo after switching to
2.2.18.
For GPM the command is the following :
gpm -m /dev/input/mice -t imps2
Note that it's mice and not mouse because the kernel send all mouse events
here so you can use simultaneously multiple mice on your USB tree.
For X you can use gpm as a repeater (option -R) or configure
/dev/input/mice as a imps2 mouse. For my XFree86 4.0.2 I use the following
configuration:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Buttons" "5"
EndSection
Christophe
On 2001.01.04 01:40:04 +0100 David B. Small wrote:
> I haven't been able to find an "install-help" list. If I've sent this
> to the wrong list, I'll be happy to resend to a different one.
>
> I have a well-aged Dell Dimension with, among other things, a Promise
> UDMA-66 card and an old CDROM drive.
>
> I was given 3 CD's of the potato release, and I intended to install
> this alongside W98 (this disk is already partitioned).
> By moving the UDMA-66 drive to the onboard EIDE controler, I was able
> to install from CD's (though it took several hours, either because the
> CDROM drive gave Read errors, or becasue the CD's were bad...I suspect
> both.), use APT to change the kernel to one friendlier to my Promise
> controller, adjust LILO and /etc/vfstab, and get things
> to---sort-of---work. There were all sorts of s/w missing, that I'd
> have expected. I tried adding packages from Corel Linux, to fix this,
> which was a mistake. So, now I'm starting over.
>
> Here are my questions (in decreasing order of importance to me)
>
> 1) Have other folks had trouble installing from potato CD's, or is it
> likely mine are bad.
>
> 2) Is it possible to install directly to the UDMA drive, on the
> promise. (Stated differently: can I make an "install" diskette using
> the kernel with IDE patches?)
>
> 3) Should there have been a file manager/explorer included, when I
> installed? (There wasn't...if none come standard, are there
> recommendations? Eazel/Nautilus? Konqueror? Others?
>
> 4) Should there have been a GUI package manager? (or is apt-get/dpkg
> the only way to go?)
>
> 5) Is there a printer adder/control panel (a la Corel Linux's)? If
> it's not standard, is there one other folks can recommend?
>
> 6) How can I get my Logitech USB mouse to work with this system?
> (It's less important, since I still have a psaux mouse from MS)
>
> Thanks for any help folks can offer,
> ---------------------------
> David B. Small
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