Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2001 13:29:03 From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] My First Questions
> >When the 70 arrived the HDD was not working, I got an adapter and installed >RedHat 7.2 on the HDD using my Desktop PC. When I refit it to the Libretto I've done this with Mandrake 8.1 (which was a mistake, as the increased memory requirements made 7.1 between three and six times faster for most GUI stuff, so I put 7.1 back!) >the HDD worked, on boot up RH detected new hardware OK, one thing it This is good as you can lose all the crap that the desktop stuff installed :) >detected was a new pointing device, I selected a generic one which seemed >to >suit. Unfortunately I choose wrong, does anyone know what type of pointing >device linux sees it as and which port to tell linux to look for it on? Tell it it's a standard PS2 mouse (for the pointer by the side of the screen) - if you do an XF86Config, hit the return to get the dev/ps2 default (IIRC) > >Sorry for the long post. > >Dave Moor No worries... btw - if you have a mandrake or redhat installation, and you install the pcmcia stuff (it's rpm is something like cs-kernel-pcmcia) then there's a gotcha - the config file (/etc/sysconfig/pcmcia) by default is set to: PCMCIA=no and it *must* be set to PCMCIA=yes PCIC=i82365 otherwise you will have severe hair pulling. This applies even if you included the pcmcia when you did the installation on the desktop. The other thing to change is the sound configuration - don't bother trying to get the sound to work using the chip drivers, just use the WSS drivers and tweak the interrupts to match your hardware (you might have to change them through the bios) and you can have 16 bit sound. mpg123 works very nicely on the 70 :) Recommended setup on the 70? Mandrake 7.1 with the kde 1.1 desktop installed, but using Icewm as the window manager. kfm, if run and then closed, vanishes but stays running as a background task and very kindly gives you working icons (set up under the kde desktop) on icewm. Neil _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
