From: Doherty, Gord (gord.doherty@cdott.com)
Date: Wed Mar 24 1999 - 14:25:45 CET
Your "startx.log" shows your mouse as "PS/2", with device "/dev/mouse"
I think you should use device "/dev/psaux" with a PS/2 type mouse
I initially ran into some problems with this when first trying to install
muLinux.
Gordon Doherty.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: morph@softhome.net [SMTP:morph@softhome.net]
> Sent: Sunday, March 21, 1999 8:22 AM
> To: mulinux@lists.linux.it
> Cc: Michele Andreoli
> Subject: Re: XF86 config with generic chipset
>
> Your startx.log shows mouse type "PS/2", device "/dev/mouse"
> Shouldn't your device be "/dev/psaux" for a PS/2 mouse ?
> I initially ran into some problems with this myself, when first trying to
> install muLinux
>
> Gordon Doherty.
>
> On 20 Mar, Michele Andreoli wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 19, 1999 at 10:16:03PM +0000, morph@softhome.net wrote:
> >
> >> (--) VGA16: chipset: generic
> >> (--) VGA16: videoram: 256k (using 256k)
> >> (--) VGA16: clocks: 28.36 28.32 28.39 28.32
> >>
> >> Fatal server error:
> >> No valid modes found.
> >>
> >
> > XF86Config problems are very disagreeable! Your problem is the clock.
> > You need a correct Modeline for your monitor.
>
> I found the trick was to uncomment the Video Ram and Clocks settings
> for the Device 'Generic VGA' - and change the Device used by the Screen
> section to be Generic VGA - after which it worked!
>
> >> Modeline "640x400" 25.175 640 664 760 800 400 409 411 450
> >
> > You can try to modify 25.175 to somewhat other values, but I don't know
> > the right formulas which calculate other parameters in this row ...
> > They are obtained with some interpolation of the clock+resolution, I
> think,
> > but only Superprobe can help you. The foundamental document for you is:
> >
> > XFree86-Video-Timings-HOWTO.gz
> >
> > but I cannot shake my brain with this HOWTO, at this moment :)))
>
> I had a look at this document, but couldn't quite get my head around it!
>
> > You can download this HOWTO from Internet: it's a big treatise on TV
> > technologies; after this lecture, you can take a degree in Electronic
> > Engineering with little effort, sure!
>
> lol
>
> Thanks for the advice - it's nice to get it all working.
>
> I have found that afterstep and fvwm95 both run very slowly on my
> laptop, so I have compiled wm2, and I am using that quite happily. I
> may even have a go at the source code to try and make it a little more
> user friendly!
>
> --
> Pete
>
> morph@softhome.net
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