[luau] Mouse and touchpad on laptop

Dan George LinuxDan at hawaii.rr.com
Sat Jul 6 10:24:00 PDT 2002


Thanks!
----- Original Message -----
From: "MonMotha" <monmotha at indy.rr.com>
To: <luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu>
Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 8:48 PM
Subject: Re: [luau] Mouse and touchpad on laptop


> In 2.2 you'll need to use NetGear's drivers (if any, I know they had
> them for the FA11 PCI card).  In 2.4, try the "natsemi" driver.  It's
> not a well known driver, but it is used on many netgear PCI cards (and
> possibly their cardbus/miniPCI ones).
>
> --MonMotha
>
> Dan George wrote:
> > Daniel
> >            Im still having problems with Sony Laptop running RH7.1 that
> > doesnt recognize my netgear card. How can I install driver off CD? I was
> > told to delete all driver files and force it to install the 7.0 driver.
But
> > I dont think that will work. The card is a FA411 card. I tried searching
> > everywhere for the correct driver. Netgear told me they dont support
Linux
> > but yet say they do on the package. Also contains Linux driver for 7.0.
> > Sony doesnt support Linux on this laptop, nor does RH have any support
for
> > the FA411 card on its site. What do I do.  Linux works fine on the
laptop. I
> > just cannot access the NIC card.
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Daniel J Nishimura" <djnishim at hawaii.edu>
> > To: <luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu>
> > Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 12:26 PM
> > Subject: Re: [luau] Mouse and touchpad on laptop
> >
> >
> >
> >>Thanks...it worked!!
> >>
> >>On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, MonMotha wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>I'd say how, but mozilla is acting up...
> >>>GRR...I'll type it by hand:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>># Onboard/PS2
> >>>Section "InputDevice"
> >>>Identifier "Mouse1"
> >>>Driver "mouse"
> >>>Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
> >>>Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
> >>>EndSection
> >>># External/USB
> >>>Section "InputDevice"
> >>>Identifier "Mouse2"
> >>>Driver "mouse"
> >>>Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
> >>>Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
> >>>EndSection
> >>>
> >>>Section ServerLayout
> >>>Identifier "TwoMouse"
> >>>Screen "<whatever you have>"
> >>>InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
> >>>InputDevice "Mouse2" "AnotherMouse"
> >>>InputDevice "<your keyboard>" "CoreKeyboard"
> >>>EndSection
> >>>
> >>>That will get X to see the two mice.  Internal as "CorePointer" and the
> >>>external as "AnotherMouse".  Getting "AnotherMouse" to do somethign is
> >>>left as an exercise to the reader (google for it I guess, I"ve never
> >>>dont this).
> >>>
> >>>BTW, I guess I'll be installing evolution or something...
> >>>
> >>>--MonMotha
> >>>
> >>>Eric Hattemer wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>well, asside from rebooting, you could probably open a terminal, go
> >>>
> > into
> >
> >>>>init 3 (as root), run kudzu, then run init 5 again.  This should only
> >>>
> > take a
> >
> >>>>minute, and hopefully should configure the mouse for use in X.  You
> >>>
> > might be
> >
> >>>>able to set up two pointers in X, but I have no idea of how.
> >>>>
> >>>>-Eric Hattemer
> >>>
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