Synched on sunsite uio.no 20000829 20:00 CEST
I try on old S3Trio64V+ 64MB P120 machine for graphic expert upgrade (PC was
up and running with yesterday new install : kernel 2.2.17-0.23);
Strange during install for the first time it don't recognize my old 2button
MSmouse, I try three time and then go head with kb....(rebooted on installed
linux mouse works ok ...;o)
On console f4:
<6>Detected PS/2 Mouse Port. (I haven't)
...........
On console f1 (remember on that machine I've an old serial2buttonMSmouse
2.0A) :
XF86Config: /tmp/Xconf
(**) XKB: disabled
(**) Mouse: type: Microsoft, device: /dev/mouse, baudrate 1200
(**) Mouse: buttons: 5
(**) Mouse: zaxismapping: (-)4 (+)5
(**) VGA16....................
..................
.................
error opening securiry policy file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy
Cannot open mouse (no such device) - Continuing...
Glib-WARNING**: getpwuid_r(): failed due to No such user 0.
Tue Aug 29 20:16:05 2000 Gdk-WARNING **: shmget failed! at
/usr/bin/perl-install/install_steps_gtk.pm line 533.
Entering step 'Choose your language'
Entering step 'Select installation class'
Entering step 'Hard drive detection'
Cannot open mouse (no such device) - Continuing...
Entering step 'Configure mouse'
Entering step 'Choose your keyboard'
Entering step 'Miscellaneous'
Entering step 'Setup filesystems'
...when I arrive there on console f3 I have:
* starting step 'doPartitionDisk'
* warning: An error as occured - no valid devices were found on which to
create new filesystems. Please check your hardware for the cause of this
problem at /usr/bin/perl-install/fsedit.pm line 423.
During a retry changing mouse with a serial MSIntellimouse I see also:
* warning: insmod'ing module serial failed at
/usr/bin/perl-install/modules.pm line 435.
--
-
Franco Silvestro
c/o CeSIA - Universita' degli Studi di Bologna
