Xfree 4.1 setup tool...
Hey guys. I know it's not your making, but today
I tried to use the xf86cfg tool, It's the worst piece
of configuration tool I've ever seen. If no mouse is
found, it renders unusual at all. The old XF86Setup
tool wasn't very polite to use with keyboard, but
it was after all! The system was a fresh installed
(without X) stable, which we upgraded to testing.
(because off packagedependencies did stop us from
having fonts and X-Servers at once, verry strange..)
Well, now gpm was installed and running, we could
move the mouse-cursor on the console with the touch-pad.
the forwarding was enabled in microsoft mode.
There was an almost working /etc/X11/XF86Config for
the Xfree 3* from stable left.
The xf86cfg started the x-server, but no mouse was
detected correctly. It tried /dev/mouse, which was
a symbolic link to /dev/gpmdata, which, as you might
know by yourself, was a fifo gpm was writing to.
After sereval tries of using the cursor-keys to get the
mouse working, we gave up and copied the XF86Config-4
from my notebook, which worked allmost instantly :-)
xf86cfg is pain in the aass!!!
CU, Willi
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