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Re: Newbie....XFree86 probs

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From: !!!computerdiety
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 00:00
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I've had the same problem. I have a serial mouse and a Trident 3dImage
9750 AGP card. The mouse is a Genius Netmouse Serial (I tried using
ALL of the settings.) When I first started, the mouse would either 

A) Not be detected at all (preventing X from running)
or
B) The cursor would sit in the middle of the screen no matter how I
moved the mouse

when I added the -R to the gpm call (as suggested in mouseconfig)

gpm -R -m /dev/mouse -t bare

It jumps all over the screen. I have tried all the possible settings.
Can you give me some pointers as to the DEVICE section you spoke of? I
would really appreciate it. 

TIA




On Mon, 26 Apr 1999 22:32:04 -0400, Christopher Harless
<harlessc@geocities.com> wrote:

>I don't know if this will help, but you can read about your card at:
>http://xfree86.org/3.3.3.1/ati.html
>
>Sometimes you need to put an options line in the Device section of
>XF86Config, but you will want to read up on the specifics for yourself.
>
>for example, adding the following:
>	option sw_cursor
>might help.
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