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[David Moberg <davidjmoberg AT gmail.com>]

On 11/19/05, sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
> 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.

The mouse should work with gpm. AFAIK, when you have entered
all of the above commands, you will end up with an emulated PS/2
mouse (wheel or otherwise) at /dev/mouse.

> 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?

Some versions of Xvesa support wheel mice. I do not know if the one in
BL3 does.

Full-size X works with wheel mice (you need to change the Protocol
to something.. is it IMPS/2??)

> 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.

No need. It is apparent that usb-storage support is unpredictable at
best under linux 2.2.

> > linux-usb.org says that mass storage does not work in 2.2.26.
>
>
> But someone said it worked with their iPod.

That was Stephen.

> >>>> 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.

SW81-SW10.2 svgalibs are all actually the latest stable version of svgalib.

> > 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.

Minor correction here: There is a configuration option in svgalib which
provides some feature, but it makes svgalib not work on kernels >2.2.
something and <2.0.3x.

> 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?

He probably used an svgalib which had that configuration option set
to 'Y'.

> If you compiled zgv statically with the latest vgalib code would it work
> with kernel 2.2.26 and 2.4.31?

Yes.

> 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.

It wouldn't. I have busybox and vimage (a small svgalib viewer) working
with uClibc on 2.4.31. I will try to put all of this together on a floppy disk
image.

> Do you want to statically compile a later zgv?

No. I will probably provide a dynamic zgv with the disk image
mentioned above.

> 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.

But it is not working with one of your card readers, and I think that the
latest kernel will work with said card reader.

> 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 have no idea.

> I forgot what your new kernel requires.

Nothing?

David