On 29 Sep 1999 18:09:53 +0200, you wrote:
>Terrapin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> It appears that XFree still screws up my GD5446 video card. In
>> addition, my IMPS/2 mouse went nuts at this time (this is new).
>> Unfortunately. I was unable to fix XF86Config because neither emacs or
>> joe were available. I don't know vi and was unable to make sense of
>> the help files so I can't fix it. (vi is too crunchy ;-) )
>>
>> I also cannot run XF86Setup with a linux 3 boot. File not found. How
>> come the path has not been set? I could fudge this setup to get it to
>> write a good enough XF86Config file.
>>
>> BTW, I reported the problem with the GD5446 several times over the
>> last month. The fix (although it is not a very nice one) is to set
>> Options "no_blt" in the device section for the video card.
>
>first of all, panoramix did goes all right through the install ?
>i mean, the mouse did work at install, and also the X server?
Yes. Both worked fine. The only GUI error was the ghostscript problem
and an initial "permission denied" with my mirrored cooker files. Used
"mirror" to mirror cooker to /usr/local/cooker.
>
>So the generated XF86Config isn't nice with your poor mouse...
>Could you try
>
>perl -ne 'print if /"Pointer/ .. /Device/' /etc/X11/XF86Config
>
>and tell what's wrong?
The config file is OK for the mouse. It just became unusable during
the test of the x configuration during panormix install only. It
worked after I did two cr's to accept the failed x configuration.
Section "Pointer"
Protocol "IMPS/2"
Device "/dev/psaux"
ZAxisMapping 4 5
>
>
>as for the option, you mean adding `` Option "noblt"' ?
>The best would be to patch /usr/lib/X11/Cards but that's quite tough (needs a
>regeneration of XFree86 rpm's (chmouel?))
My card used to work fine several months ago with the XFree86-SVGA. I
manually added the noblt about 4 versions ago to make it work. (BTW,
what is the proper name for that option???)
BUT, with this option, moving windows or scrolling is not nice and
smooth, like in Windows. The displayed image "waves"
>another solution would be a hack somewhere else in the XFdrake code...
>i'm looking at it...
>
>
>cu Pixel.
