Re: [Sheflug] Debian Box

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Wed, 10 May 2000, Richard wrote:

> Three different mice.  Every single one of them works fine with this
> box.

Mmm, but you've not pinned it down to kernel (unlikely) or configuration
(likely). I was taking it for granted you'd checked the mouse ;)))

>  How do I get emacs to open xf86config ?  Is it /etc/xf86config 
> ???

emacs (brrr).. /etc/X11/XF86Config on this box. You'll get a lot of
mileage out of what Jose said, I think - get gpm working before trying X.
gpm should run with little configuration, and if that works then you know
it's a configuration problem.

If you're configuring X, you may as well use XF86Setup - much easier than
hacking the file by hand. The only time I've ever hacked the file by hand
was to squeeze PAL signal out of the video card; even xvidtune wouldn't
let me do that.... there are key bindings available; even if the mouse
doesn't work.

Cheers,

Alex.

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