Re: [Sheflug] Debian Box

[José Luis Gómez Dans <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>]

On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 08:42:37PM +0100, Richard wrote:
> Jose
> >         It should be straightforward. First of all, forget about X, as
> > this can be sorted out later. So boot up, and log into a console. Move
> > the mouse around, and observe /proc/interrupts. Give the mouse a roll
> > over the table, and observer /proc/interrupts again. This looks like
> > this here (only relevant stuff considered)
> > 
> >            CPU0
> >  12:       5571          XT-PIC  PS/2 Mouse
> 
> no clue what this is about at all.  Certainly not on a Debian box.

	Certainly yes on a linux box, as I typed that stuff on my debian
box here. Anyway, /proc stuff is common to all distros, as it is a
virtual filesystem, which is mapped to an area of memory that holds
information on stuff lying around the system (pci devices and all that).
/proc/interrupts is just a list of the IRQ sources and the number of
times they have requested servicing. So in my particular case above, the
ps2 mouse has IRQ 12 assigned and has requested stuff 5571 times.
Obviously, YMMV here :)

	As for the question in the other posting, in debian (and all
other distros, I believe), XF86Config is in /etc/X11/XF86Config.

	HtH,
	José
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José L Gómez Dans			PhD student
					Radar & Communications Group
					Department of Electronic Engineering
					University of Sheffield UK
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