On 8/11/06, Mark Wolfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Rich Ernst wrote:
> I've been trying a bunch of live as well as a full install of Fedora
> Core 5, and apparently there's no default serial mouse configuration!
>
> What's up with that? Ubuntu, CentOSLive, even Knoppix doesn't find the
> serial mouse on this box. Got FC5 to work by manually finding,
> downloading and installing system-config-mouse and running it. That
> apparently set it for X as well.
>
> Anyone have any idea why this isn't still in default configs? (Strange
> box, only one ps/2 port.)
>
> Oh, Knoppix v3.3 found the mouse fine, but 3.9 didn't. Weird. How do I
> configure a mouse without a mouse in X, for example... :)
That's the distros subtle way of saying "Rich, buy new hardware." They
knew you still had serial mice sitting around and wanted you to see how
nice optical usb mice were. :)
For a blast from the past, take a look at
< http://vmlinux.org/rtl/docs/Embedded-RTLlinux-part1.pdf >
" the recommended minimum size for running Linux with X-Windows is
usually 8 - 16 MB"
carl
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