[techtalk] !@#$#$YT emachines and XF86

[Beverly Guillermo]

Do you have the gpm working in console?

Beverly


On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, alissa bader wrote:

> okay, I have in front of me an emachines box.  I
> decided to put Slackware 7.1 on it.  Installation
> itself seemed to go well.  But I am running into
> problems when trying to configure xwindows.  I'm using
> the XF86Setup utility and I swear to god, I can't get
> the mouse to work.  I have tried all of the different
> mouse protocols, as many device names as I could and
> still the mouse is not recognized.  
> 
> Now I also have an internal modem in that machine (a
> pcmia win modem, which means more fun for me later, i
> hear) and i wonder if it's possible that there's a
> conflict with the COM ports there.  
> 
> anyone run into a similar problem like this?  I swear
> to god, I have configured XF86 on many many *nix
> platforms before and never have I come across
> something like this.
> 
> thanks in advance for all your help!
> 
> --alissa
> 
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