scottw@ico.isc.com (Scott Wiesner) (01/03/90)
After seeing a number of complaints about using the ATI VGA Wonder (and the built in mouse) with the Interactive X11 product, I decided it was time to retry this setup on my machine. I did the following: Re-configured my kernel to include the Logitec bus mouse driver. Shut down my machine. Installed the ATI card. Used ATI's "vsetup" program to configure the mouse at the primary address and use interrupt 5. Booted unix. Edited my Xconfig file to use a Logitec bus mouse with 2 buttons. Ran the 1.0 version of Xvga. Everything's fine. Ran the X3 update version of Xvga. Everything's fine. Ran the 1.1 version of Xvga. Everything's fine. Other comments: If you're not familiar with the Xconfig file, it's what X is really using to determine the display, resolution, mouse type, etc., that you are using. The sysadm configuration stuff modifies this file. It's in /usr/lib/X11/Xconfig. Look for the sample line that has a Logitec 3 button bus mouse. Make a copy of this line, and uncomment it by removing the # at the beginning of the line. Change the "3" to a "2" to indicate you only have 2 buttons. Comment out the line that was your previous mouse entry. My config entry is: mouse LOGI-B "2" 0 /dev/logi In the X3 and 1.1 releases of X, you can set the display configuration type to ATIVGA and run at 800x600 if you have 512k of memory on the ATI board. In a future release, you'll also be able to do this with only 256k of memory. As far as I can tell, things work just fine. It's true you can't tell X you've got a Microsoft Bus mouse in this case, but telling it you've got a Logitec Bus mouse (which is what you really have!) works just fine. If people are still having a problem with this configuration, I'd be interested in hearing about it. Scott Wiesner Interactive Systems X Development Group
karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger) (01/03/90)
In article <1990Jan2.174214.18507@ico.isc.com> scottw@ico.isc.com (Scott Wiesner) writes: >After seeing a number of complaints about using the ATI VGA Wonder (and >the built in mouse) with the Interactive X11 product, I decided it was >time to retry this setup on my machine. I did the following: > > Re-configured my kernel to include the Logitec bus mouse driver. > Shut down my machine. > Installed the ATI card. > Used ATI's "vsetup" program to configure the mouse at the > primary address and use interrupt 5. > Booted unix. > Edited my Xconfig file to use a Logitec bus mouse with 2 buttons. > Ran the 1.0 version of Xvga. Everything's fine. > Ran the X3 update version of Xvga. Everything's fine. > Ran the 1.1 version of Xvga. Everything's fine. > >Other comments: > >As far as I can tell, things work just fine. It's true you can't tell >X you've got a Microsoft Bus mouse in this case, but telling it you've >got a Logitec Bus mouse (which is what you really have!) works just fine. This may be true for your board, but it's not true for mine. If I tell the system I have a Microsoft bus mouse (which is what the manual that came with the board says this is) it doesn't work. At all. If I tell the system I have a Logitech mouse it works -- sorta. The system finds a mouse, I can read /dev/logi, but any program which tries to use it is so fast on the mouse speed as to be unusable. By "so fast" I mean as in 0.1cm movement == pointer across the screen! We don't have "X" installed yet (they haven't gotten it to us; we're waiting for 1.1), but we do have VP/IX installed. I tried to install MS Windows under VP/IX, and got that result. Incredible speed, no resolution to speak of. -- Karl Denninger (karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM, <well-connected>!ddsw1!karl) Public Access Data Line: [+1 708 566-8911], Voice: [+1 708 566-8910] Macro Computer Solutions, Inc. "Quality Solutions at a Fair Price"