I tried Google. One could spend a career wading through all of the fluff...
I have three issues that I would guess can be answered pretty quickly here. First some background. I have a Toshiba Satellite 1805-S273 laptop. Installed on this laptop is Redhat Linux 7.2 with XFree86 4.1.0. 1). Although all of the XFree86 packages indicate 4.1.0-xx, the SVGA package and compat modules still reads 3.3.6: [root@rks0 rks0]# rpm -qa | grep XFree86 XFree86-ISO8859-15-75dpi-fonts-4.1.0-3 XFree86-xdm-4.1.0-3 XFree86-devel-4.1.0-3 XFree86-libs-4.1.0-3 XFree86-xfs-4.1.0-3 XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.1.0-3 XFree86-ISO8859-15-100dpi-fonts-4.1.0-3 XFree86-tools-4.1.0-3 XFree86-SVGA-3.3.6-42 XFree86-4.1.0-3 XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.1.0-3 XFree86-twm-4.1.0-3 XFree86-compat-modules-3.3.6-42 Is this an oversight or are those packages purposely backlevelled? Is there an update? Does it make any sense to bring those packages up to the same level as the others? 2). This laptop has a 'eraserhead' mouse, much like the IBM Thinkpad. I have a couple of very annoying problems with it. The first is during scrolling around in a document, it seems that the mouse pointer gets 'wound up' and unwinds by moving by itself on the screen. It does not take long to eventually stop (typically less than 10 seconds), but is interesting to watch. The other mouse problem is more severe and also seems to be related to scrolling. The point on the screen that the mouse registers a click seems to jump to the left by about 30 to 50 pixels. I have to move the pointer to the right of an object to click on it, by maybe a half an inch. When this happens I usually need to reboot to get the mouse back. 3). The last item is related to an external monitor. If I switch to an external monitor (with Fn-F5), nothing happens under Linux. I've read a number of Google accounts where this works on a number of other laptops. I have a Windows partition on this laptop as well and it works fine there, so I know the port works. How do I get this to work with Linux. Any insight on these items would be greatly appreciated. -- Rich Smrcina Sytek Services, Inc. Milwaukee, WI [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Catch the WAVV! Stay for Requirements and the Free for All! Update your S/390 skills in 4 days for a very reasonable price. WAVV 2002 in Cincinnati (Fort Mitchell, KY). April 12-16, 2002 For details see http://www.wavv.org _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
