Turning off screen blanking?

1996-12-17 Thread John Juergensen
Hi all, I know this has gotta be a real simple basic question, but I've been through all the man pages and how-tos I can find, with no answer. After Linux recieves no input for a while, the screen blanks. While this behavior is fine in character mode, it hoses my X server. The screen gets al

Re: How do I get GATEWAY2000 PS/2 mouse to work

1996-08-10 Thread John Juergensen
There is a package called bin86 in the devel area which contains the as86 and ld86 binaries, which are necessary for kernel-compilation. Once you have these, the compilation should proceed smoothly. I don't know if this is properly a bug in the distribution, though, because you don't need the x86

Re: Cannot compile mouse support - help!

1996-08-09 Thread John Juergensen
Hi again all, This is a narrowing-down question to my earlier post. What does it mean when gpm gives me the following error message: gpm: /dev/inportbm: No such device The file /dev/inportbm clearly exists, it is character special (10,2) and it does have appropriate ownership and permissi

Cannot compile mouse support - help!

1996-08-08 Thread John Juergensen
Hi all, I'm trying to compile mouse support into my kernel (2.0.6), but for the life of me I can't get the mouse to function. I have a busmouse on an ATI Graphics Ultra + card (which the HOWTO says is a regular busmouse, NOT an ATI busmouse). When I run MSD under dos, it reports a busmouse usi