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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, David Moberg wrote:

> On 11/17/05, sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
> > I have no idea how to use a USB mouse in linux but will try ours if
> > someone explains how.
>
> Here is what works for me with 2.2.26:
>
> insmod usbcore
> insmod usb-uhci
> insmod input
> insmod usbmouse
> insmod mousedev
> mkdir /dev/input/
> mknod c 13 32 /dev/input/mouse0
> ln -sf /dev/input/mouse0 /dev/mouse
> startx
>
> If you have a wheel mouse, you may need to move the wheel
> up and down to get it to work properly. Some interaction
> between the mouse driver and mouse.

Will the wheel mouse also work with gpm?  My partner liked pasting between 
terminals with it.

We have several wheel mice, PS/2 or USB-with-PS2-adaptor and I was unable 
to get them (I may have only tried one) to work with the wheel even as 
PS/2.  Does BL support wheel mice?

> > I did not try the camera because you said
> > usb-storage did not work right, but I will try tomorrow if you want.
>
> Stephen says that USB storage works for him. Can you try it
> with an ohci?

I tried it with an ohci and all the modules inserted, but it did not find 
the camera or the card reader (with CF card) that both worked in DOS and 
with your newer kernel.  It might work with certain kinds of usb storage 
devices but not these.  I did not get the complaint about finding a device 
that was not assigned to any active driver because of unrecognized id's.

If you like, I can repeat the experiment and post the exact results, but 
they did not seem promising.


> linux-usb.org says that mass storage does not work in 2.2.26.


But someone said it worked with their iPod.

Why would they include the module if it does not work at all?
I read something about backporting from 2.4.

> > > > Maybe the libvga and libvgagl from SW91 will fix svgalib in BL2,
> > >
> > > They will.
> >
> > Okay, I will install the svgalib package from SW91.
>
> SW81 svgalib might be more convenient.
I have not done that yet but hope it will also work better with the newer 
graphics cards.

> > > > but zgv for BL3 is statically compiled and would need to be replaced.
> > >
> > > Is there a dynamic zgv for libc5? Or a dynamic seejpeg? Doesn't SW4
> > > have one?
> >
> > Yes for seejpeg.  I don't know about zgv.  Why is the static version not
> > working with the 2.4.31 kernel?
>
> I don't know which static version you are talking about, but I think it is
> because the old vgalib code is statically compiled in. This code does
> not like 2.2.26 or 2.4.31.

I think Steven may have compiled zgv a few years ago.  Would he have used 
code from SW3.x or 4.0 rather than recent source code?

If you compiled zgv statically with the latest vgalib code would it work 
with kernel 2.2.26 and 2.4.31?  Then people would not need svgalib at all 
with your newer kernel, just to look at photos.  (It would still be needed 
for the delilinux links2).  I don't know if uClibc would cause problems.

> > > I should have asked how often you need to transfer pictures. Would
> > > you really need to use X/sound at the same time?
> >
> > Not if I can get svgalib/zgv working so I can check that the photos are
> > really there and not corrupted before I delete them from the camera.
>
> OK.

Do you want to statically compile a later zgv?  I should probably upgrade 
svgalib anyway to work with newer graphics cards.

> > > > > David, could you try out any kernel you compile to make
> > > > > sure it works with Xvesa from BL3?
> > >
> > > It will work if networking is set to Y.
> >
> > The minimal kernel will be handy if it can be put onto a 2-floppy BL3
> > set to use on other people's computers.
>
> But you would need to repartition.

I was thinking of booting BL3 from floppy disks (with lilo) and using it 
to download photos.  But DOS is working just as well, from a single boot 
disk with space for a viewer and even a few low-res photos.

> > Does your kernel mount DOS and Windows file systems?
>
> I included vfat support, because that is what most cameras use.
> So, 'yes'.

With BL3 kernels and the framebuffer kernel you made, I have to
mount -t msdos  /dev/..... but with BL2 I don't need to specify the file 
type.  Why?  I forgot what your new kernel requires.

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