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fifer
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 Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2003 5:38 am Post subject: XFree86 Problems |
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First, how do i get my USB MS optical to work? I've followed the gentoo instructions but they don't work. Is there some other tut/guide on the web?
Second why does X crash when i startx? I entered my monitor freq's in correctly and chose nvidia driver. And also.. linux has been around for years how come noone has coded something that automaticly detects vidcard/monitor/mouse settings like windows does? Well i've been up 29 hours literally installing gentoo and i don't even have a nice pretty GUI to show for it  |
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Helena
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| Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2003 8:38 am Post subject: Re: XFree86 Problems |
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| fifer wrote: | First, how do i get my USB MS optical to work? I've followed the gentoo instructions but they don't work. Is there some other tut/guide on the web?
Second why does X crash when i startx? I entered my monitor freq's in correctly and chose nvidia driver. And also.. linux has been around for years how come noone has coded something that automaticly detects vidcard/monitor/mouse settings like windows does? Well i've been up 29 hours literally installing gentoo and i don't even have a nice pretty GUI to show for it |
I have an optical mouse as well and no problems, so you should be able to get it working. Did you compile (and load) all the relevant kernel modules? If so, then please attach your full /etc/X11/XF86Config as well as the relevant parts of /var/log/XFree86.0.log |
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Brandy
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| Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2003 9:24 am Post subject: |
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Moved from Installing Gentoo to Desktop Environments.
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fifer
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| Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2003 3:15 pm Post subject: |
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| The desktopcconfigguide tells me to "insmod" these usbmouse, mousedev, hid, usbcore, usb-uhci, and input. I don't know what that means |
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Helena
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| fifer wrote: | | The desktopcconfigguide tells me to "insmod" these usbmouse, mousedev, hid, usbcore, usb-uhci, and input. I don't know what that means |
It means that you have to recompile the kernel with the correct options. Use either or | Code: | cd /usr/src/linux
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make dep && make clean bzImage modules modules_install |
to compile a new kernel after specifiying changed options. These methods are described in the installation manual. The options to select are described elsewhere. If you compiled the relevant items as modules, then indeed you have to insert them into the kernel; either viaetc., or by loading them from /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.4 (you can simply edit this file with nano). |
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