[RULE] More config questions from Congo

[M. Fioretti]

Please send any reply *also* to  mcwimpy at gmx.at

Thanks,

Marco Fioretti

Subject: serial mice and fb device
From: "Markus Nicolussi" <mcwimpy at gmx.at>

Hello!

I'm Markus from "Bino na Biso". This ist a congolese (Demokratic
Rep. Congo) organisation which hypes cultural exchange by

1.) making it possilbe to life one half or one jear in Kinshasa and
working in a social Organisation witch supports street children. For
this there exists a parntership with the austrian NGO "Grenzenlos"
(Borderless). but also

2.) making it possible to take part in computerizing scools in
Kishasa.  Doing this Bino na Biso wants to support the spreading of
free software. For this there exists a parntership with the austrian
organisation VUM (www.vum.at).

The last one is my topic. I'm 25 Jears old and I worked since 1997
(SuSE 5.0) with Linux. It was alwyas a hobby after doing the tchnical
highscool and besides working with Windows and afterwards studying
social work and engaging at ATTAC (www.atac.org). So far to my person.

I'd like to ask a question:

We have around 60-70 PCs here which are running rulified/vumboxed RH9.
(which we'll add by time to your test-database :-)

Some of the machines have serial mouses like Logitech or MS-Mouse
2.0A. They work after some configuration steps with
redhat-config-mouse for the console, but not with tinyX. (MS Mouse
2.1A does!) After consulting "man Xvesa" and the "man Xkdrive" i only
found the options -2button and -3button to tell tinyX anything about
mice.

Are there any other possibilitys to configure the mouse with tinyX? Or
can anybody tell me anything about this?

We really have to have mouse support for the graphical system,
otherwise the pubils in our supportet scools will not be pleased ;-)

another question: the rh9 kernel should support fb-mode i think. why
can't i just relink /usr/X11R6/X to /usr/X11R6/Xfbdevice? (see
startx-error.txt)

thank u in advance

ciao, nico


hostname: Host name lookup failure

Error opening /dev/fb0
: No such device

Fatal server error:
no screens found
XIO:  fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
      after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

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