Linux-Hardware Digest #81, Volume #10 Wed, 21 Apr 99 16:13:31 EDT
Contents:
Re: SCSI-emulation in kernel 2.2(.6) (Peter Wilm)
driving external monitor @ 1024x768 with Xaccel 4.1 on Toshiba Libretto 100CT (Joe
Wells)
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) (Tor Iver
Wilhelmsen)
Re: PCI modem /with/ a controller? (Richard Snow)
Re: Mandrake? ("Sergey Zhukov")
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) (Tor Iver
Wilhelmsen)
Re: Error during boot = ide0 : buggy cmd640b interface on PCI .... (Tim Moore)
Re: 3dfx VooDoo3 OffTopic ("G de Keating-Hart")
Re: OnStream SC30 and Linux (Dale Gass)
Re: Setting up a Sun 3/50 as an X terminal ("David Murray")
Re: Seagate STT38000 tape backup (Dan Warren)
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) (westprog)
HP Lajerjet 4MV header printing!! (=?EUC-KR?B?v8C/67yu?=)
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) ("Simon Cooke")
Re: logitech mouse problems... (Digital Wokan)
Re: RealTek RTL 8029 PCI Ethernet Driver (Jim Roberts)
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) ("Edwin E.
Thorne")
NetGear FA410TX PC Card (Randy Edwards)
Re: Newbie--3c509b can't recognize (Joop Marijne)
Re: Programmers are gods (westprog)
3com Megahertz 10/100 LAN PC Card, Model 3CCFE574BT (Andy Harrison)
hda: drive not ready for command (Linux 2.2.6 on 386) (Georg Schwarz)
Re: Dual Celeron Problems (Norbert Goebel)
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From: Peter Wilm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI-emulation in kernel 2.2(.6)
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 14:36:00 +0000
Hi!
My Mitsumi is a 4801TE and also ATAPI-IDE. Unfortunately it hasn�t
worked so far.
I can read CDs if I install it on /dev/hdd . However, I cannot get it
recognized as
a SCSI -Drive if I compile it with SCSI-Emulation. I have compiled the
2.2.6
Kernel exactly as described in the CD-Writer HOWTO (v2.7.3, April 17th,
1999).
However, the kernel doesn�t recognize any SCSI-device.
Any thoughts?
Peter.
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From: Joe Wells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: driving external monitor @ 1024x768 with Xaccel 4.1 on Toshiba Libretto 100CT
Date: 21 Apr 1999 08:45:54 -0400
I want to drive an external monitor at a resolution of 1024x768 with
Xaccel 4.1 on a Toshiba Libretto 100CT.
The Toshiba Libretto 100CT manual says it can do:
External SVGA 1024 x 768 max 85 Hz up to 64K colors
What I'm having trouble doing is configuring Xaccel to make the video
chipset send the correct signal to the external monitor. I tried telling
it could use 1024x768 at 60 Hz (well within the capacity of my Sony
Multiscan 100sf monitor), but I had the following problems:
* The image was not placed correctly on the monitor. The vertical and
horizontal borders were black stripes going through the image, the four
corners of which were each in the wrong place.
* The mouse would disappear and warp in funny ways when it was moved
around.
Can anyone please tell me how to do what I want?
--
Joe Wells
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From: Tor Iver Wilhelmsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?)
Date: 21 Apr 1999 15:39:07 +0200
westprog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> We are probably lucky that they didn't have a 32-character
> limit. Then it would never have been fixed.
Well, Apple's HFS had such a limit (rather: 31 chars), and they fixed
it in HFS+ (IIRC based on HPFS).
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Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 07:42:50 -0400
From: Richard Snow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PCI modem /with/ a controller?
Johan Kullstam wrote:
>
> these days $8 buys you a dec tulip 10mbit ethercard and you use a
> cablemodem. death to pots. :-)
>
> --
> J o h a n K u l l s t a m
> [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Don't Fear the Penguin!
Maybe in the big city you can use a cable modem but it will be years from
now before you can do that here in a small town in East Texas.
--
Richard Snow
Java, C, Linux
HomePage: http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Campus/1376
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Sergey Zhukov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mandrake?
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 12:45:23 +0300
Hi!
Mandrake is RedHat 5.2 plus KDE1.1 - while no support RH for KDE
distribution
www.linux-mandrake.com
Best Regards,
Sergey Zhukov.
Hao Le wrote in message ...
>Hey all,
>
>I've seen some stuff floating around regarding Mandrake. Now, to my
>understanding, Mandrake is Redhat 5.3 and supposedly it is out. However,
>I visited the Redhat homepage and found nothing on it. If it is out,
>where can I get a copy? Any help is much appreciated =)
>
>-Hao Le
>
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From: Tor Iver Wilhelmsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?)
Date: 21 Apr 1999 15:52:54 +0200
westprog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> One of the first things we learn when we are being taught to read is
> that Bob, BOB, and bob are the same word.
I think people called Bob would not want to be confused with the verb
bob. And i assume your english teacher would have reacted if you wrote
this sentence as it is.
> In other words, the Unix OS is too lazy to do a one-line conversion
> that every other OS I know does as a matter of routine. It forces
> the user to conform to its method of coding characters.
Well, it works OK for ASCII, since the difference between a letter and
its capitalized version is one bit.
> Well duh - Windows short file names are crap. We all knew that. Do
> you really need the ability to have two files, one called
> MyfirstProgram.java and another called MyFirstProgram.java?
possibly. case is important in many respects, for instance german
insists on using them a lot for nouns and such.
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Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 22:27:21 -0700
From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Error during boot = ide0 : buggy cmd640b interface on PCI ....
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD640=y in /usr/src/linux/.config
--
Direct replies to username timothymoore
"Everything is permitted. Nothing is forbidden."
WS Burroughs.
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From: "G de Keating-Hart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3dfx VooDoo3 OffTopic
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 10:53:31 +0100
add on to your video card
Daniel Flinkmann wrote in message <7fh90d$oht$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>By the way,
>
>Ist 3dfx VooDoo 3 an addon card or standalone ?
>
>Daniel
>
>
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From: Dale Gass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: OnStream SC30 and Linux
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 11:32:40 -0300
Dale Gass wrote:
> Anyhow, I saw about 30M/minute backup speeds. Not quite the 2M/sec
> native transfer rate the drive is supposed to be capable of, nor the
> 80-90MB/minute that some people have reported on the net. This is on a
> PII-450 Dell with lotsa memory. I tried copmressed and uncompressed and
> it didn't make any difference.
Followup: Someone on the net (Hennes Passmann) indicated to me that the ISA
SCSI card is likely the problem, as ISA cards are really second class
citzens these days. So I picked up a PCI SCSI Card (actually two of them,
an AHA2906 and AHA2930, both were quite inexpensive), and tried out the
onstream with the AHA2930 (haven't tried the 2906 yet, but I'm sure it would
perform the same).
This definitely solved the throughput problem. I now see burst transfers in
the 2M/sec range, and overall backup rates around 50M/minute (when things
are going slower, it's usually because the hard drive is churning with small
files; with big files, I get 80-90MB/minute).
Now, if only we had some Linux drivers...
-dale
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From: "David Murray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Setting up a Sun 3/50 as an X terminal
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 15:22:12 GMT
Isn't the Sun 3/50 a Motorola M680x0 based machine? Linux/M68K might be a
better solution.
--DavidM
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in article <7fkoj8$4qk$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Hi as the topic says I am trying to set up a sun 3/50 as a diskless x
> terminal I have had some problems and thought maybe someone can help me
(I'm
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From: Dan Warren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Seagate STT38000 tape backup
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 10:06:41 -0500
Hello
Isn't the STT38000 a SCSI tape drive? If so, I believe you won't have to use
ftape (that is for floppy tape drives). Enabling SCSI tape drive support in the
kernel is all that is necessary. Hope that helps
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We have a Seagate STT38000 tape backup and RedHat 5.2 and it s our first
> experience with backups and linux. We found drivers for QIC-80. But our drive
> support read-only for those formats.. or the doc says so. We were unable to
> mount the drive with ftape anyway.
>
> It supports QIC-3080 and QIC-3095 too. We found no information on those. Does
> anybody has a clue?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Martin Hamel
>
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From: westprog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?)
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 15:04:42 GMT
In article <#HuM2M9i#[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Olaf Appelt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Fundamentally, I envisage a future system that is object-oriented in the
> way
> >that Unix is file-oriented.
>
> Smalltalk?
There is a lot in Smalltalk, or Java, or Corba or even Com that contains the
ideas that I would like to see in an OS. I don't want a single language
environment though.
J.
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From: =?EUC-KR?B?v8C/67yu?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HP Lajerjet 4MV header printing!!
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 01:51:47 +0900
I installed Redhat 5.2a...
Printer is connected network. (HP Lajerjet 4MV)
I added printer, so Well printed.
But content that I wanted is printing and next page is printed, too!!!
next page is printed that
User: root
Host: ailab10
Class: ailab10
Job: testpage.ps
How I can not print this header printing?
Please tell me......
Thank you.
mailto : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Simon Cooke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?)
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 10:19:17 -0700
Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> the basic problem is having the short names around at all. the second
> problem is that the short file name does not map obviously to a unique
> long one. this is inherent in the basic problem.
The thing is, if they were ditched entirely, how would Windows 3.1 and DOS
programs have been able to run on Windows 95?
Or are you proposing that people ditch all their software and start from
scratch?
At least this way, people could keep their older apps and still use them,
without incurring a massive software upgrade penalty.
--
Simon Cooke
(The views of this poster are his and his alone, and may or may not reflect
the views of the Microsoft Corporation).
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Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 13:54:51 -0400
From: Digital Wokan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,fido.ger.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: logitech mouse problems...
I tried XF86Setup and went to its mouse configuration screen. You can
run through those options until something works.
Christoph Klaja wrote:
>
> > On most systems /dev/mouse is a link to the actual mouse interface
> > device.
> > Maybe /dev/mouse points to the wrong place.
> > Consider using RedHat's mouseconfig.
>
> unfortunately no.../dev/mouse links to /dev/psaux....and this is the right
> one, afaik
>
> c ya
> __
> \__HRIS
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Roberts)
Subject: Re: RealTek RTL 8029 PCI Ethernet Driver
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 17:45:18 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Iain Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is there one ? Is there a compatible one?
> (For RedHat 5.2)
>
> Is there a Santa Claus ???
>
> TIA
>
> iain
>
Yes, and Yes.
Part of the kernel source. Either my name or as NE2000.
>
--
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From: "Edwin E. Thorne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?)
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 09:22:19 -0500
Tor Iver Wilhelmsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> "Martin Ozolins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Name one besides German.
>
> I noticed your English sentence has a capitalized noun in it... you
> may want to correct it. Or not.
>
> :-)
His sentence is correct according to the rules of American English. We
still capitalize the names of languages (proper nouns).
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Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 14:41:50 -0400
From: Randy Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: NetGear FA410TX PC Card
Can someone tell me what the chipset/kernel configuration would be for the
NetGear FA410TX pcmcia Ethernet adapter? Thanks in advance.
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From: Joop Marijne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Newbie--3c509b can't recognize
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 20:37:57 +0200
Try to disable the option "plau and play OS" in your Bios, that did it for me,
else you could try to disable the PnP option with the driver disk
(3c5x9cfg.exe)
Kind regards,
Joop Marijne
Kevin wrote:
> I can't get linux to find or recognize my ethernet card it's a 3c509b.
> It works fine in NT but I've tried to get it to go in Xwindows, no luck.
> I've redone the kernel and made sure it was enabled--nothing. When I go to
> ifconfig eth0 says it's not a device. It's listed as supported? I'm using
> redhat 5.2. Tthe book I'm using the guy is using the same card as reference.
> Please help. Email replies please to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Thanks
> Kevin
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From: westprog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: Programmers are gods
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 14:52:38 GMT
In article <7fic7g$20sp$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leslie Mikesell) wrote:
> In article <7fi7nf$ro5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> westprog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> > > Given
> >> > > a limited amount of time, I'd rather see the effort going into
> >> > > making the code understandable. I do find it helpful to put
> >> > > the data into structs and comment the struct declarations though.
> >
> >I disagree here to the extent that no matter how well written the code is, it
> >can't indicate what you want it to do. The function name "func" is the
> >problem. If it had a name like
> >ConcatanateArrayOfStringsIntoASingleStringWithASeperator, this would give us
> >enough of a clue to decipher the code. As most people find function names
> >this long rather cumbersome, it is essential to have a comment to say what
> >the function is meant to do.
>
> I don't think anyone really objects to good comments along with good
> code.
>
> >This is in a way more important than the code -
> >if the comment is totally accurate, you can throw away all your bad code and
> >put in a good function. If you don't know exactly what the function is
> >supposed to do, knowing what it actually does may not help.
>
> The point is that you are unlikely to get good comments, and more likely
> to get something misleading. The code can't separate it's functionality
> from it's appearance completely (although people sometimes try), but the
> comments can be pure fantasy, or more likely left over from some
> earlier version where the comments were written to match the design
> which was found not to work after testing.
That's why I made the distinction between comments describing what the code
does, which are likely to change as the code is modified, and comments
describing what the purpose of the code is, which is much more likely to stay
the same.
The likelihood of obsolete, misleading comments can be hugely increased by
inappropriate fancy headers for functions. This is the kind of template that
you see:
////////////////////../././././*************\\.\.\.\.\..\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
//
// FUNCTION NAME:
//
// AUTHOR:
//
// DATE:
//
// PURPOSE:
//
// PARAMETERS:
//
// RETURN TYPE:
//
// DESCRIPTION:
//
// MODIFICATION HISTORY
//
// (c) My Company
etc etc.
These blocks get cut and pasted, so the tiny amount of useful information is
always wrong. The place for most of this information is in the source code
control program. A more appropriate scheme is:
// This program strips the path information from the string File, and places
it // in variable Path. File now contains just the file name. // N.b. This
only works with Windows Fat-16 file names. void SplitFileName( string &
File, // Entry: holds complete file name. // Exit: Path has been stripped
out string & Path) // Exit: Holds the path portion of the file name { ...
If I saw this, I would know what the code was trying to do. Of course, it is
quite possible that somebody would copy the entire function to Unix, change it
to parse Unix paths, and forget to change the comment about Fat-16.
> >> *ALWAYS* code for the *other* programmer, because someday *you* may be
> >> the *other* programmer...
> >
> >I sometimes find I'm the other programmer the same afternoon.
>
> So, do you always search for the old comments that your changes have
> made obsolete and fix them?
What I do and what I should do are different matters. I think that when change
the operands of a function, or its purpose, I will make the change at the top,
but nothing is foolproof.
J.
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From: Andy Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 3com Megahertz 10/100 LAN PC Card, Model 3CCFE574BT
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 14:31:55 +0000
Sheesh, what a pain... I started typing this post as a question, but
solved it before I finished. So I thought I'd post this anyway, just in
case it could be helpful to someone who has one of these cards and is as
inexperienced as I am at adding hardware (let alone pcmcia hardware).
I recently got a ThinkPad 600e. Installed RH5.2/2.0.36 on it (making
sure to install the pcmcia package). As mentioned, I have a 3com
Megahertz 10/100 LAN PC Card, Model 3CCFE574BT.
After digging and digging, I finally got it to work.
If you do a 'cardctl ident' it shows you the info on the 3com card.
I then added a line in /etc/pcmcia/config down under the 10/100 ethernet
section to match what the cardctl ident told me:
card "3Com 3c574B Megahertz"
version "3Com", "Megahertz 574B"
bind "3c574_cs"
After I added this, I executed /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia restart and like
magic it was there. :)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Georg Schwarz)
Subject: hda: drive not ready for command (Linux 2.2.6 on 386)
Date: 21 Apr 1999 15:31:15 GMT
I'm running Linux (RH 5.2) 2.2.6 on a 386. hda is a Seagate:
/dev/hda:
Model=ST3243A, FwRev=05.05.01, SerialNo=00DB1115
Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs }
RawCHS=1024/12/34, TrkSize=19244, SectSize=566, ECCbytes=11
BuffType=3(DualPortCache), BuffSize=64kB, MaxMultSect=32, MultSect=off
DblWordIO=no, maxPIO=0(slow), DMA=no
(maybe): CurCHS=1024/12/34, CurSects=417792, LBA=no
when booting I get:
... hda: ST3243A, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: ST3243A, 204MB w/64kB Cache, CHS=1024/12/34
...
Partition check:
hda:hda: status error: status=0x01 { Error } hda: status error:
error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } hda: drive not ready for command hda:
status error: status=0x01 { Error } hda: status error: error=0x04 {
DriveStatusError } hda: drive not ready for command hda: status error:
status=0x01 { Error } hda: status error: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
hda: drive not ready for command hda: status error: status=0x01 { Error }
hda: status error: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } hda: drive not ready
for command ide0: reset: success
hda1 hda2
after that everything seems to be fine (for now, that is :-)). What does
this message mean, and what is causing it?
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From: Norbert Goebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dual Celeron Problems
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 22:05:06 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> =
> According to Norbert Goebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> =
> > It seems, that my Logitech PS/2 mouse caused these problems. I switch=
ed
> > to a serial Logitech Mouse and everything works smooth without any
> > hangups of mouse and keyboard.
> =
> I have noticed that some machines automatically disable the mouse port
> and free its interrupt if there is no mouse plugged in. When a mouse
> is plugged in and an interrupt conflict is created, the machine will
> lock up if the mouse initialization is attempted.
> =
> On a completely unrelated note, I have a Logitech ps/2 mouse that
> works fine under windows, but has bizarre problems (it generates
> random cursor movements) when used with both FreeBSD and Linux
> machines. I worked with the FreeBSD ps/2 device driver maintainer and
> we were both clueless as to what was going on with it.
> =
> -p.
It pleases me to hear, that I am not the only one with these problems. =
The interesting part on my side is, that with one processor, the mouse
worked almost (if I moved it before x was fully loaded, it minimized my
taskbar) flawlessly, but with 2 processor it has great problems.
I didn=B4t change any settings regarding the PS/2 mouse in the Bios and
the PS/2 mouse support is set to enabled.
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