Linux-Setup Digest #132, Volume #21 Sun, 29 Apr 01 19:13:06 EDT
Contents:
2.2.19 Kernel and Printing ?? ("ET1Mac")
Re: Linux, streams and the standard library (John Beardmore)
Re: Linux, streams and the standard library (Philip Armstrong)
proxy ("Darren")
Re: Linux, streams and the standard library ("Neil Butterworth")
Re: proxy (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
Re: Linux, streams and the standard library (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
Microsoft Sidewinder Gamepad Setup - Mandrake 8.0 (mrsmith)
Re: proxy ("Darren")
Re: RH7.1 hangs with 2.4.4 (Adriel Michaud)
Re: No sound at startup (Adriel Michaud)
Re: BeOS + Linux + Windows 2000 - Triple boot trouble. ("Andrew Bachmann")
Re: Locked CD drive and etc (Chris Ward)
Re: Is it possible to dual boot without a bootloader? (Jan Eric Andersson)
Re: which distro is most friendly on printer setup...? (webgiant)
Re: 486 help??!! (webgiant)
Re: PCMCIA modem / Lucent / Dynalink / ltmodem568.o (David Nowak)
Re: 486 help??!! (webgiant)
Q: Autodetect 2 kinds of Mouse on Laptop? (webgiant)
Re: PCMCIA modem / Lucent / Dynalink / ltmodem568.o ("Peter T. Breuer")
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From: "ET1Mac" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: 2.2.19 Kernel and Printing ??
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 20:22:27 GMT
Hello;
Thanx for all the help on my sound configuration, finally got it to work.
But when I rebuilt the kernel I somehow lost my ability to print.
When booting with the new kernel (1st time) kudzu recognized my printer (HP
612C) and continued with the bootup process.
I then went to printtool to check everything but this is what I found:
No printer was installed; when trying to add a printer there was no
detection of and devices (dev/lp0, dev/lp1, dev/lp2). So I inserted the
proper device (lp0 as from the original install) but received the following
error when trying to print a test page:
Error printing test page to queue lp
Error reason: lpr: connect: Connection refused, jobs queued, but cannot
start daemon.
I confirmed lpd was running and retried with same results.
Its something I forgot to include in the kernel configuration, but I
rechecked and keep coming up with the same results. What could I have left
out.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Running RH 6.2
Kernel 2.2.19-6.2.1
AMD Duron 800
GigaByte GA-7ZX
30 G HD
HP 612C
CanoScan 300
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From: John Beardmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.alpha
Subject: Re: Linux, streams and the standard library
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 21:22:58 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Neil Butterworth
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>"John Beardmore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> So - a couple of questions:
>>
>> 1) is there a way to get ostringstream to work ?
>
>Yes - use STLport. You can download it from www.stlport.org.
>
>> 2) is the Standard C++ library ready for prime time under Linux ?
>> Isn't its
>> use utterly routine these days ? Or am I trying to be too modern ?
>
>No, I've been using it for quite some time with absolutely no problems. Not
>under RedHat though - I run SuSE.
What compiler version are you using ?
Cheers, J/.
--
John Beardmore
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Philip Armstrong)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.alpha
Subject: Re: Linux, streams and the standard library
Date: 29 Apr 2001 20:54:46 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Neil Butterworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>"John Beardmore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
>[snip]
>>
>> So - a couple of questions:
>>
>> 1) is there a way to get ostringstream to work ?
>
>Yes - use STLport. You can download it from www.stlport.org.
Or install gcc-2.95.3 which has ostringstream in its version
of the STL.
>> 2) is the Standard C++ library ready for prime time under Linux ?
>> Isn't its
>> use utterly routine these days ? Or am I trying to be too modern ?
>
>No, I've been using it for quite some time with absolutely no problems. Not
>under RedHat though - I run SuSE.
Indeed. With gcc-2.95.3 the STL support is pretty complete. gcc-3.0
should finish off all the corner cases in the c++ support hopefully.
Phil
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From: "Darren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.linux.general,linux.redhat.install,redhat.config
Subject: proxy
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 14:25:44 +0100
Hi all. does anyone know how I can set up my Linux box to act as a proxy
server gateway type thing?
Thanks in advance
Darren
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From: "Neil Butterworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.alpha
Subject: Re: Linux, streams and the standard library
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 20:47:45 +0100
"John Beardmore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Neil Butterworth
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
> >"John Beardmore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> >news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> >> So - a couple of questions:
> >>
> >> 1) is there a way to get ostringstream to work ?
> >
> >Yes - use STLport. You can download it from www.stlport.org.
> >
> >> 2) is the Standard C++ library ready for prime time under Linux ?
> >> Isn't its
> >> use utterly routine these days ? Or am I trying to be too modern
?
> >
> >No, I've been using it for quite some time with absolutely no problems.
Not
> >under RedHat though - I run SuSE.
>
> What compiler version are you using ?
gcc 2.95.2
NeilB
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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.linux.general,linux.redhat.install,redhat.config
Subject: Re: proxy
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 22:46:25 +0200
On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Darren wrote:
> Hi all. does anyone know how I can set up my Linux box to act as a proxy
> server gateway type thing?
Take a look at squid (www.squid-cache.org) - it is an excellent proxy.
And works fine with iptables/ipchains as a transparent proxy.
Rasmus
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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.alpha
Subject: Re: Linux, streams and the standard library
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 22:47:46 +0200
On 29 Apr 2001, Philip Armstrong wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Neil Butterworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >"John Beardmore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> >news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >
> >[snip]
> >>
> >> So - a couple of questions:
> >>
> >> 1) is there a way to get ostringstream to work ?
> >
> >Yes - use STLport. You can download it from www.stlport.org.
>
> Or install gcc-2.95.3 which has ostringstream in its version
> of the STL.
>
> >> 2) is the Standard C++ library ready for prime time under Linux ?
> >> Isn't its
> >> use utterly routine these days ? Or am I trying to be too modern ?
> >
> >No, I've been using it for quite some time with absolutely no problems. Not
> >under RedHat though - I run SuSE.
>
> Indeed. With gcc-2.95.3 the STL support is pretty complete. gcc-3.0
> should finish off all the corner cases in the c++ support hopefully.
In RedHat 6.2 there was some egcs (1.1.2 I think). I think it is the gcc
2.91.66 one. I don't know how complete the STL support was thence.
Rasmus
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From: mrsmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Microsoft Sidewinder Gamepad Setup - Mandrake 8.0
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 15:58:58 -0500
I will put this problem out once again and see if I can get a
solution. I am wanting to use my MS Sidewinder gamepad with Mandrake
8.0. As root, I perform the following:
1. /sbin/lsmod (no listing for joystick)
2. /sbin/modprobe joydev
3. /sbin/modprobe sidewinder
4. /sbin/lsmod (entries are now there for "sidewinder", "gameport",
and joydev.
I cannot run the "jscal" or "jstest" programs because they apparently
are not on my system. So, when I go to a game, Rocks and Diamonds for
example, and try to use the joystick, it does not work.
My question is, what am I missing in getting this to work?
Thanks for any help.
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From: "Darren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.linux.general,linux.redhat.install,redhat.config
Subject: Re: proxy
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 21:59:11 +0100
Rasmus B�g Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Darren wrote:
>
> > Hi all. does anyone know how I can set up my Linux box to act as a proxy
> > server gateway type thing?
>
> Take a look at squid (www.squid-cache.org) - it is an excellent proxy.
> And works fine with iptables/ipchains as a transparent proxy.
>
> Rasmus
cheers amigo, I appreciate it
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From: Adriel Michaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH7.1 hangs with 2.4.4
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 21:30:05 -0000
Mine seems to hang on the "power down" command, but I don't really think it
matters. . .all the filesystems are unmounted and services off by then,
just annoying to have to manually hit the power button when it's done.
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From: Adriel Michaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: No sound at startup
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 21:30:06 -0000
Henrik Farre wrote:
>
> Yello
>
> I have to start "Gnome Mixer" in order to get any sound. I can start
> playing a CD with "Gnome CD player" or play a Mp3 with XMMS, but there is
> no sound until I start the mixer.
>
> I have esd starting up on boot.
>
> I run Gnome 1.4
>
> Any ideas???
>
I noticed that sound did not immediately work with gnome as well. . and the
answer is as simple as this: go to your gnome configuration tool, under
"multimedia" choose sound, select the buttons, click ok. . .reboot. (not
sure if you have to reboot, but I did)
This is the problem that I had with the new Ximian Gnome 1.4, your problem
may be different, but this should help.
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Reply-To: "Andrew Bachmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Andrew Bachmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.beos,alt.os.linux,comp.sys.be.help
Subject: Re: BeOS + Linux + Windows 2000 - Triple boot trouble.
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 21:42:09 GMT
Groman,
I don't know if you have worked it out, but you may want to examine if you
are having a problem due to ATA/66. I saw some pages on this, but I don't
recall where. You may have to set your PIO for the drive to a lower number
(3? 2?). You should be able to try this out in the BIOS.
Also, you may have seen my recent post about my DVD-ROM drive problem, which
was that it was on the secondary IDE as the primary drive, but it was not
hooked up to the end of the IDE cable. (Only BeOS seemed to be upset by
this.) Maybe it is a similar problem with your hard drive?
How's the LNE100TX driver going? I'd be excited to test it out with the
PPPoE driver for my DSL modem.
Andrew
P.S. Also replied to group
Groman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9bdfqs$d45$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi.
> I have a tiny problem. I want to triple boot between 3 OSes installed
> on my PC: BeOS 5.0 Personal Edition, Win2000 Pro, and Redhat Linux
6.0(Yeah,
> I know, old,
> but I'll update it, as soon as I get some boot managing scheme working).
>
> HD/Partitions:
>
> HD1: 12 gig
> Part1: 11 Gig: NTFS <----------Where win2k lives
> Part2: 1.1 Gig: BFS <----------Where BeOS lives.
>
> HD2: 2.1 Gig
> Part1: 1.9 gig: ext2fs <----------- Where linux lives
> Part2: 0.2 gig: linuxswap <----------- Swap space.
>
> My attempts:
> 1) Lilo: If installed on MBR of HD1, displays: "LI" and hangs.
>
>
> 2) WinNT Bootmenu: Ok, I install lilo on HD2 parition 1 bootsector
> dded it to a file, and copied it to C:\, added it to boot.ini. Got "LI" if
> I pick Linux.
> I don't seem to have a addbeos.exe file, since I erased my install
files
> for beos(it lives on it's own parition now).
>
> 3) GRUB... CVSed, compiled, and installed onto HD1 MBR, displays
> "GRUB" and hangs....
>
> 4) BeOS Bootman: Boots beos and windows, but BeOS refuses to
> see my HD2(IDE ATA normal drive secondary master), so I can't even
> attempt booting Linux from it.
>
> What do I do?
>
> Thanx. Groman.(sorry for crossposting, but I can't really see what this
> pertains to specifically).
>
>
>
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From: Chris Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Locked CD drive and etc
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 22:15:00 +0100
On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Mark wrote:
>Hi all
>
>I installed Mandrake 8.0. Everything went well, but all my removable
>drives (cd rom, zip, floppy) are locked for some reason. I can't even
>access it using root.
>
>Does anyone has any solution?
I assume you've done the obvious, like mounting them into the filesystem, and
checking /etc/fstab to make sure that's correct.
Chris Ward.
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From: Jan Eric Andersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is it possible to dual boot without a bootloader?
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 17:25:18 -0500
Cyber-Wizard wrote:
> I have a 12Gb drive running Win2K and decided to learn about Linux to
> get out from under the M$ thumb. I have installed Mandrake on a 1.7Gb
> drive in a removable hard drive bay. I need this bay for other
> purposes and would like to simply select hda3 in the BIOS for booting
> into Linux when I want it. My problem is this, now that Linux is
> installed, GRUB is loading at boot no matter which drive I am booting
> from. If I remove the 1.7Gb Linux drive from the drive bay the PC will
> not boot at all. Does anyone know how I might go about being able to
> boot into Linux by manual HDD BIOS selection?
Install the bootloader on the removable drive instead of hda.
Jan Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (webgiant )
Subject: Re: which distro is most friendly on printer setup...?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 22:26:36 GMT
On Sat, 21 Apr 2001 02:30:13 -0000, bullwinkle
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>slok wrote:
>
>> which distribution is most easy to setup to work with printers?
>
>Greetings from Bullwinkle:
> It is easy to set up a printer with Redhat, and I am sure most of the
>distributions have something similar to Redhat's printtool. What is
>more important is the printer. Some are not fully supported, or not
>supported at all. Check http://www.linuxprinting.org/
Before everyone goes off half-cocked and yelling "Linux doesn't
support X printer because there is no driver for it!", remember one
important thing about Linux:
If the device you want to use works in DOS--using whatever quirky
method that may have to be used--then chances are it will work in
Linux.
I mention this only because of a recent discussion about Panasonic dot
matrix printers and them not printing under RedHat. Some of my old
DOS applications didn't have specific drivers for Panasonic dot matrix
printers, but they still printed on a Panasonic dot matrix printer
with full printer control codes.
Why? Because Panasonic, like many other printer brands, has
compatibility with other printer drivers. When a DOS application
needed to print and didn't have a Panasonic driver, I selected what
the Panasonic printer manual said to do in such a case: select a basic
EPSON printer driver, since the Panasonic printer was compatible with
the EPSON printer driver.
So it would seem to me that if there is no *specific* driver listed in
RedHat (or whatever distro you happen to be using), read your printer
manual under "DOS compatibility". Chances are you'll find a DOS
compatibility section and an alternate driver to try.
A more modern (okay, five years old) printer I have around the house
is a Lexmark 1020. While color printing is unavailable to DOS using
this printer (it uses a Windoze-specific print manager), the manual
lists "DOS compatibility" in B&W printing by using a HP550C printer
driver. I used this information and for a few years I managed to
print in Linux using what was essentially a "WinPrinter", by using the
DOS compatibility driver listed in the manual. I originally purchased
the printer only because it was cheap and new (when I bought it) and
only used it for B&W printing (color cartridges were EXPENSIVE and
still prone to diffusion errors).
So if you don't find a specific driver for Linux, read the manual for
DOS compatibility mode and look for the suggested driver in the Linux
distro you happen to be using.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (webgiant )
Subject: Re: 486 help??!!
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 22:32:08 GMT
On Tue, 17 Apr 2001 16:33:01 GMT,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] () wrote:
>On Tue, 17 Apr 2001 05:19:15 GMT, webgiant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>On Sat, 14 Apr 2001 20:04:48 GMT,
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] () wrote:
>>
>>>On Sat, 14 Apr 2001 17:10:19 GMT, Miguel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>>[posted and mailed]
>>>>
>>>>well i have an old 486 with 8mb ram and a 4go Hd and i wanna know which is
>>>>the best way to install linux. i dont have any cdrom drive but im on adsl.
>>>
>>>Spend the $20 bucks or borrow a cdrom drive.
>>
>>Gearhead.
>>
>>New CDROM drives are $40. Some of us don't have that much disposable
>>income, or that tiny of an imagination.
>
>Or any friends who have a cdrom.
I see. "Since trying to load anything onto a computer without a CDROM
is such a pointless activity, get dependent on a CDROM *now* rather
than learning alternative methods later.
Back when I didn't have a CDROM for my 486 and didn't have the
disposable income for a $40 CDROM drive, my friends who lived closest
to me didn't have computers. The one who did lived about a one hour
drive from me and used his CDROM almost constantly running an
old-fashioned single-line BBS on it.
So no, your "advice" doesn't work for everyone.
There are people who are DIFFERENT FROM YOU living in this world,
fella!
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From: David Nowak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: PCMCIA modem / Lucent / Dynalink / ltmodem568.o
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 23:44:15 +0100
Thanks for you reply Peter.
"Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
> Check it out in /proc/pci and via /sbin/lspci.
Nothing there.
> HAVE a winmodem on a pcmcia card! Amazing.
In desperate cases, I tend to believe amazing things. But maybe this
time I have exaggerated.
> Well, that doesn't tell us much. What does the generic pcmcia modem
> driver make of it?
I have added
card "Dynalink PCMCIA 56K Fax Modem"
version "V90&K56Flex PCMCIA FAX MODEM", "", ""
bind "serial_cs"
in the config file. The result is:
Apr 29 23:26:52 watashi cardmgr[507]: error parsing CIS on socket 1:
Invalid argument
Apr 29 23:26:52 watashi cardmgr[507]: socket 1: Dynalink PCMCIA 56K Fax
Modem
Apr 29 23:26:52 watashi cardmgr[507]: executing: 'insmod
/lib/modules/2.2.17/pcmcia/serial_cs.o'
Apr 29 23:26:52 watashi kernel: register_serial(): autoconfig failed
Apr 29 23:26:52 watashi kernel: serial_cs: register_serial() at 0x02f8,
irq 3 failed
Apr 29 23:26:53 watashi cardmgr[507]: get dev info on socket 1 failed:
Resource temporarily unavailable
Any suggestion?
--
David
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (webgiant )
Subject: Re: 486 help??!!
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 22:38:39 GMT
On 19 Apr 2001 15:29:16 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Knudsen)
wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>(webgiant ) writes:
>
>>Why not just get a Slackware distro? Most of it can be loaded with
>>floppies,
>
>How true. I put a 1997 vintage Slackware set on my 20-Meg 486 with very few
>problems. My machine was blessed with a CDROM drive and a Win95 partition, but
>the instructions did tell how to use floppies. Of course you'd need access to
>another PC with a CDROM.
I downloaded my first Slackware distro directly onto floppies, so
technically I didn't need a CDROM drive to start with.
The second time around I got the Slackware 7.1 CDROM set, but by that
time all the local libraries had PCs with CDROMs and floppy drives, so
even though I had a computer at home with a CDROM drive, I had other
options.
>Ironically, the first hurdle faced in installing any Linux is finding the right
>CDROM driver! Not as bad as finding the right video driver when you go to X
>Windows, but maybe you're better off without the CDROM :-)
Whenever I ran Linux, the only time it ever had a problem figuring out
the CDROM drive was when I was using some old 2XCDROM which plugged
into a sound card. IDE CDROMs tended to work almost instantly.
> With only 8M RAM, probably X is out.
No, it isn't. X is out only if you think that X is
GNOME/Enlightenment, or that X is KDE/(whatever KDE's base window
manager is).
X is in if you put in some basic window manager like FVWM or IceWM.
One 486 I loaded Slackware 7.1 onto for a lark only had 8MB of RAM,
and I had FVWM running on it in a very short wait. I wouldn't try it
without at least 32MB swap, and I wouldn't try huge X windows apps on
it, but for some of the basic GUI stuff it works quite nicely.
>Anyway, my 66 MHz 486 runs Slackware and X just fine, and does big C compiles
>plenty fast for me. --Mike K.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (webgiant )
Subject: Q: Autodetect 2 kinds of Mouse on Laptop?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 22:57:09 GMT
I have a Compaq LTE Elite 4/75C (486DX2/75Mhz) with 16MB RAM, 1 GB
hard drive, running Slackware 7.1.
It has a built-in trackball mouse which comes up as a PS/2 mouse
(/dev/psaux). There is a PS/2 port on the back and a serial port
(along with the other conventional ports).
I would like to be able to use a serial mouse with the system when I
have the room for a mouse, so as to help prolong the life of the
trackball mouse. To prolong the life of the keyboard, I would like to
occasionally plug a PS/2 keyboard into the PS/2 port on the back (the
laptop allows you to do this automagically and always knows what kind
of device is plugged into the PS/2 port. I use console apps which use
the mouse, so gpm is loaded on startup. I also use X on this system
(IceWM for low overhead).
Here's my problem: when I install Linux, it asks which mouse type I'm
using, and then I'm stuck with whatever mouse type I chose on install.
If I choose serial, I have to have a serial mouse every time I want to
use a mouse for something in Linux. The built-in PS/2 trackball will
never be used by Linux.
If I choose PS/2, I have to either plug in a PS/2 mouse into the PS/2
port (preventing its use as a keyboard port) or use the trackball. I
can never use a serial mouse with the system.
One thing I did like about Windoze (but not enough of a reason to go
back, see below) was that I could install it using a PS/2 mouse, then
if the PS/2 mouse didn't work for whatever reason, Windoze would popup
a window saying "Could not detect a PS/2 mouse, you may plug in a
serial mouse now if you like" or something like that. Thus Windoze
would work with either kind of mouse.
The Windoze "feature" wouldn't work in this case, since it would
always detect the trackball and thus never feel like looking for the
serial mouse (hence why the above is not a good enough reason for
going back).
Essentially, here's what I want Linux to do on each boot:
[1] Check the serial port. If a serial mouse is plugged in:
del /dev/mouse
ln -s /dev/ttys0 /dev/mouse
...and load gpm using the serial mouse.
[2] If no mouse is found on the serial port, look for a PS/2 mouse,
find the trackball, and:
del /dev/mouse
ln -s /dev/psaux /dev/mouse
...and load gpm using the built-in PS/2 trackball.
I would appreciate someone telling me how to manage this during the
boot sequence.
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: PCMCIA modem / Lucent / Dynalink / ltmodem568.o
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 00:49:34 +0200
In comp.os.linux.misc David Nowak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have added
> card "Dynalink PCMCIA 56K Fax Modem"
> version "V90&K56Flex PCMCIA FAX MODEM", "", ""
> bind "serial_cs"
> in the config file. The result is:
> Apr 29 23:26:52 watashi cardmgr[507]: error parsing CIS on socket 1:
> Invalid argument
Eh? The cardmanager complains about the card? Or the database? You
might want to check which in the source.
> Apr 29 23:26:52 watashi cardmgr[507]: socket 1: Dynalink PCMCIA 56K Fax
> Modem
> Apr 29 23:26:52 watashi cardmgr[507]: executing: 'insmod
> /lib/modules/2.2.17/pcmcia/serial_cs.o'
> Apr 29 23:26:52 watashi kernel: register_serial(): autoconfig failed
> Apr 29 23:26:52 watashi kernel: serial_cs: register_serial() at 0x02f8,
> irq 3 failed
Well, isn't that your onboard serial port? I'd disable that in the bios
or try and encourage the driver to choose a different setting! Isn't
it already configured to avoid certain ports and io regions? (see in
/etc/pcmcia/). Add that one to the list!
> Apr 29 23:26:53 watashi cardmgr[507]: get dev info on socket 1 failed:
> Resource temporarily unavailable
> Any suggestion?
It may well be a winmodem pcmcia. Ask on some pcmcia list. Or ask David
Hinds directly. He sometimes hangs out here too.
Peter
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