Re: Touchpad, was Re: The next meeting / workshop / clinic.
On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Rob Freeman wrote: On Monday 03 February 2003 9:44 am, you wrote: [...] My distro is old, but the kernel is reasonably new: 2.4.18 + If you are using the stock redhat kernel just look into the src package to see how many patches have been added (and not all of them are up to date, e.g. firewire) You may be surprised :-) [...] It might be worth updating the whole distribution soon. But I usually find that opens up a whole new can of worms... :-) Mmmm ... yeah :-) Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand
Re: Touchpad, was Re: The next meeting / workshop / clinic.
On Tuesday 04 February 2003 8:43 am, you wrote: On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Rob Freeman wrote: On Monday 03 February 2003 9:44 am, you wrote: [...] My distro is old, but the kernel is reasonably new: 2.4.18 + If you are using the stock redhat kernel just look into the src package to see how many patches have been added (and not all of them are up to date, e.g. firewire) You may be surprised :-) Yeah, it's a reasonable suggestion but actually I home compiled a 2.4.20 kernel just recently to solve the USB disk problem I had last year (solved nicely). I thought this problem might evaporate with that, but no luck. As far as I remember it has been the same with all the 2.4 kernels I've had. Perhaps I could go back and check some of the earlier ones. If I had definite info that there was a patch which might affect this I would toy with it again, but I should be pretty up to date. [...] It might be worth updating the whole distribution soon. But I usually find that opens up a whole new can of worms... :-) Mmmm ... yeah :-) I'll wait until I can afford not to do any work for a week... -Rob
Touchpad, was Re: The next meeting / workshop / clinic.
On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Rob Freeman wrote: I would love to find out why installing a serial mouse on my laptop (RH7.2, 2.4.xx) means touching the touchpad freezes the keyboard. First try to upgrade to the latest and greatest before proceeding forward. 7.2 is more than an year old and things are still moving at a fast pace. Laptops are notoriously hairy and very specific. Good Luck! Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand
