Xfree 4.1 setup tool...
Hey guys. I know it's not your making, but today I tried to use the xf86cfg tool, It's the worst piece of configuration tool I've ever seen. If no mouse is found, it renders unusual at all. The old XF86Setup tool wasn't very polite to use with keyboard, but it was after all! The system was a fresh installed (without X) stable, which we upgraded to testing. (because off packagedependencies did stop us from having fonts and X-Servers at once, verry strange..) Well, now gpm was installed and running, we could move the mouse-cursor on the console with the touch-pad. the forwarding was enabled in microsoft mode. There was an almost working /etc/X11/XF86Config for the Xfree 3* from stable left. The xf86cfg started the x-server, but no mouse was detected correctly. It tried /dev/mouse, which was a symbolic link to /dev/gpmdata, which, as you might know by yourself, was a fifo gpm was writing to. After sereval tries of using the cursor-keys to get the mouse working, we gave up and copied the XF86Config-4 from my notebook, which worked allmost instantly :-) xf86cfg is pain in the aass!!! CU, Willi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Xfree 4.1 setup tool...
Hey guys. I know it's not your making, but today I tried to use the xf86cfg tool, It's the worst piece of configuration tool I've ever seen. If no mouse is found, it renders unusual at all. The old XF86Setup tool wasn't very polite to use with keyboard, but it was after all! The system was a fresh installed (without X) stable, which we upgraded to testing. (because off packagedependencies did stop us from having fonts and X-Servers at once, verry strange..) Well, now gpm was installed and running, we could move the mouse-cursor on the console with the touch-pad. the forwarding was enabled in microsoft mode. There was an almost working /etc/X11/XF86Config for the Xfree 3* from stable left. The xf86cfg started the x-server, but no mouse was detected correctly. It tried /dev/mouse, which was a symbolic link to /dev/gpmdata, which, as you might know by yourself, was a fifo gpm was writing to. After sereval tries of using the cursor-keys to get the mouse working, we gave up and copied the XF86Config-4 from my notebook, which worked allmost instantly :-) xf86cfg is pain in the aass!!! CU, Willi
Re: Xfree 4.1 setup tool...
On Fri, 2001-12-28 at 21:36, Wilfried Goesgens wrote: Hey guys. I know it's not your making, Perfectly right. You're barking up the wrong tree. Anyway, why didn't you read the xf86cfg manpage instead of wasting your time and writing a useless rant? -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
