Re: longstanding Linux irritants: suggested solutions?

2004-04-13 Thread caszonyi
On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, James Miller wrote: > Moral of the story: man with 2 kernels kills one mouse (an ancient Incan > proverb :) ). At least for now, it is not possible for me to boot between > 2 kernels and have a working mouse: I must use either one or the other. > And I'll have to determine wh

Re: longstanding Linux irritants: suggested solutions?

2004-04-13 Thread James Miller
I've hacked together a pseudo solution to the 2.6.4 kernel/mouse problem, but created others in the process. The particulars of why things are the way they are and why what I did resolved something largely escape me. But while I still retain some scraps of insight into it, I think I'll make a pos

Re: longstanding Linux irritants: suggested solutions?

2004-04-13 Thread James Miller
On Mon, 12 Apr 2004, Beolach wrote: > > I installed gpm (gives mouse cursor/action in console mode) since I've > > used virtual terminals alot on other machines. On this one, I don't use > > them much, so maybe I should just uninstall gpm? I did work on this 2.6.x > > cursor problem a couple of

Re: longstanding Linux irritants: suggested solutions?

2004-04-12 Thread Beolach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Miller wrote: > On Mon, 12 Apr 2004, Ray Olszewski wrote: > > >>I can only give you partial answers here, James. I hope they are enough to >>be of some help. > > > >>"stdout" is short for "standard output" and is, by default, the terminal >>d

Re: longstanding Linux irritants: suggested solutions?

2004-04-12 Thread Ray Olszewski
Responding to bits and pieces only. At 10:28 PM 4/12/2004 -0500, James Miller wrote: [...] I know of no sensible workaround for this problem, except > the most basic one: keep a copy of your changes somewhere and be ready to > restore them if you need to. Ok. Hope I can remember that I saved it

Re: longstanding Linux irritants: suggested solutions?

2004-04-12 Thread James Miller
On Mon, 12 Apr 2004, Bryan Whitehead wrote: > > to properly center the display. I kind of expect Xvidtune to write the > > values I tune the display to to XF86Config-4, but it doesn't do that. > > I've tried it both as user and as root. Judging from the man page for > > Xvidtune, which says: > >

Re: longstanding Linux irritants: suggested solutions?

2004-04-12 Thread caszonyi
On Mon, 12 Apr 2004, James Miller wrote: > The next irritant I've encountered has to do with mice and the 2.6.4 > kernel. I have a pretty much standard ps2 mouse (a trackballish type > thing but definitely with a ps2 plug). This mouse works fine with the 2.4 > kernels I've tried it with thus far

Re: longstanding Linux irritants: suggested solutions?

2004-04-12 Thread Ray Olszewski
I can only give you partial answers here, James. I hope they are enough to be of some help. At 02:39 PM 4/12/2004 -0500, James Miller wrote: I've had a couple of (non-production threatening) issues on my Debian Sid system that I've just had to shove to the back burner for lack of time to deal wit

Re: longstanding Linux irritants: suggested solutions?

2004-04-12 Thread Bryan Whitehead
I've generated a working XF86Config-4 file and the display quality is to my liking. The problem is that it is shifted slightly too far right on the monitor (LCD flat screen 17"). I can, of course shift the image manually with control buttons on the monitor itself. But when I do this, running te

longstanding Linux irritants: suggested solutions?

2004-04-12 Thread James Miller
I've had a couple of (non-production threatening) issues on my Debian Sid system that I've just had to shove to the back burner for lack of time to deal with them. They continue to bother me though, and I'd like to devote a bit of time I have at the moment to solving them with help from the list.