steve@hacker.UUCP (Stephen M. Youndt) (08/04/90)
I have a couple of questions related to VP/ix on Esix in the above configuration. 1) How do I get my Logitech Bus Mouse to work under Esix (I have Rev C but will be going to D in a week or so). I uncommented LMOUSE in vpix.cnf and tried to ln /dev/logi to what I think is the mouse device for X, but to no avail. 2) Ctr-Alt-Fx does not work while I'm in VP/ix. Is there anything that will allow me to switch virtual consoles while in VP/ix? I'm sorry if these are elementary, but I can't find anything in the documentation. I'd appreciate any help you can give. Thanks. -- SMY -- Stephen M. Youndt / "Remember, no matter where you go, uunet!hacker!steve / there you are." -- B. Banzai
darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) (08/06/90)
In article <196@hacker.UUCP> steve@hacker.UUCP (Stephen M. Youndt) writes: >I have a couple of questions related to VP/ix on Esix in the above >configuration. 1) How do I get my Logitech Bus Mouse to work under >Esix (I have Rev C but will be going to D in a week or so). I uncommented >LMOUSE in vpix.cnf and tried to ln /dev/logi to what I think is the mouse >device for X, but to no avail. I am sure that someone with a Logitech mouse will share their experience with you, (I have a Genius mouse which works fine) but if you are using COM2 you might check that it is turned on in the kernel. The default is only COM1 on. Check /etc/conf/sdevice.d/asy. The second field for the active COM ports on your system should be set to a Y. You have to rebuild your kernel if you change this. > 2) Ctr-Alt-Fx does not work while I'm in >VP/ix. Is there anything that will allow me to switch virtual consoles >while in VP/ix? I'm sorry if these are elementary, but I can't find >anything in the documentation. I'd appreciate any help you can give. Under VP/ix the console switching works a little different. Press the Alt-SysRq combo followed by F(x-1) to get the effect of ALT-Fx. Note that this means you can't directly change to the main console. You have to change to another console then press Alt-F1. The Alt-SysRq trick works for getting the menu under VP/ix as well. Follow Alt-SysRq by m. Note there is a small bug in Esix release D that makes it necessary to use the left alt key for this. I don't know if the bug is in release C. It wasn't in release B. I have mentioned this to Jeff at Esix and I assume that a fix will be forthcoming soon. Esix is usually good about those sorts of things. -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain (darcy@druid) | D'Arcy Cain Consulting | MS-DOS: The Andrew Dice Clay West Hill, Ontario, Canada | of operating systems. + 416 281 6094 |