>.....but i'm >stuck trying to configure my stock adb mouse. Preliminary research >tells me that everything kernel 2.4 and beyond has dropped support >for this and that I will have to figure out a work around.
hi.. and hmm..SuSE 7.3 runs with a 4.2.12 Kernel on the 9600, and I never had adb mouse related problems..but I remember darkly that I had LinuxPPC with a 2.2.18 Kernel had troubles on the s900, but as an newbie and all the other bugs I didn�t trace this ...(It was that the mouse in principle worked, but the mouse daemon ..(?) had Troubles causing it to restart continually, thereby killing the former pid...that every few seconds..) On Suse 7.3 I guess the mouse runs as an ps2 mouse (emulation?)...I will have a look at the Konfiguration of this..although I don�t know if it will work for Mandrake as well. >Because of >this road block I have not had a chance to even try to configure X >and my video card (Radeon 7000 mac edition). In mac Forums i have read mostly that the new 7500 should be less good than the former radeon card (this should be the 7000?)...so you can hape that IF it will come to work, it might run very well under Linux.. With the 7500 I have a resolution of 1280*1024 @ 16bit (caused to the resolution I had in Macos when I first installed SuSE) ..I hope with a move to XF 4.2.0 this limitation might disappear..if there wouldn�t be Oldworld Open Firmware..) On SuSE there is a Tool sax2 for konfiguration of x, this includes keyboard and mouse.. on mandrake it could be something like xconfig, xkonfigurator, or so.. (if they don�t have a special tool for that, like SuSE has) try some variations (XC.. ,Xc.. xfc.., XFc..) once you found that tool, you should also have the chance to configure your mouse > Jo Bu I have also run >across this PCI bridge bug in both my reading and in a kernel message >that flew by during boot up. I will keep you posted on my findings. The bug if not patched will make the 4 lower pci slots running at only one shared interrupt, in my case, with a graka in slot 4, this meant that the other of them 4 slots all were not usable... >To all those interested in Linux I will put forth this tidbit: >root=/dev/sda3 >This needs to go into the "More kernel arguments" textbox of bootx >after you finish your install. The last part [sda3] is where my root >resides, so that part will be specific to your machine. I include >this because i couldn't find it documented anywhere.(it was a shot in >the dark for me after many reboots and much frustration) I downloaded the mandrake 8.2 images too, but didn�t burn them yet..and so had no look in it..but there should be a tool named pdisk..you run it under macos and it will give you complete information about your partition scheme.. (if you ever plan to swap around harddisks ;) good luck gru� Jochen -- -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
