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On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, [iso-8859-1] Andrew Bañas wrote:

> I'm a newbie who installed BL3 on a dell latitude,
> pentium 166 laptop.  I also used the pentium 1
> optimized kernel. The command line interface is just
> ok.  When running X or icewm however, the cursor seems
> to live discolored tracks.  I haven't figured out yet
> how to configure it with a laptop's trackball, and
> LCD.  Also, my system hangs when I exit X.

I had problems exiting X with a couple of video cards and the solution is 
to use a different X server, not the Xvesa that is standard.  Try the 
package no-xvesa.tgz for 800 resolution, after first installing the X 
server for your card, or the svga X server.  If you need or prefer 640 or 
800 resolution instead, I posted XF86Config files that worked for me with 
the SVGA X server at 640 or at 1024 resolution.
(http://keesan.freeshell.org/bl - look for XF86Config.640 or 1024 ).

Your mouse may not be supported by the BL3 kernel.  You could try a larger 
kernel from Slackware 7.1 bare.i directory.  I had a couple of laptop 
trackballs that, when you moved them, caused the cursor to scoot into the 
corner and stay there, and someone got one of them working with a newer 
linux.

> Can anyone help me?
>
> Thanks
>
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