John....most of the info you're referring to is laid out quite nicely in
the information section of the KDE Control Center.
Alan
John Aldrich wrote:
>
> On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, you wrote:
> > My mouse is a PS/2, but isn't that configured under psaux in linux?? PS/2
> > mice use IRQ 12, well at least mine does ;)
> > And my PS/2 mouse port seems to be enabled because while linux is loading, I
> > see PS/2 mouse port detected, and mouseconfig tells me "Mouse found on PS/2
> > port".. but when I enable it, that's when my keyboard jams... It might be
> > due to an IRQ conflict, because somebody else had this problem and also had
> > a Diamond V770 on their machine... But then again, my Diamond V770 is using
> > IRQ 11... Is Linux having problems with two IRQs too close??
> >
> Ah.... so that's what psaux means. :-) Why dintja just say
> so? ;-)
> My guess is that the video card is either using TWO IRQs
> (dunno why) or maybe the I/O base is conflicting??? Hard to
> tell. That's one thing I like about Windows -- you can tell
> what's using which I/O and IRQ fairly easily.... I have yet
> to find anything QUITE so nicely laid out in an
> easy-to-understand manner under Linux.. :-(
> John
