rwc@mhinfo.UUCP (Ralph Callaway) (12/06/90)
Hello netlanders. This is probably not the correct location but I thought I would post it here anyway. We just recieved Open DeskTop and have had some problems installing the mouse and DOS... The following is information on the problems that we are having. If anyone knows the answers to these pressing questions, I would greatly appreciate some help... Otherwise, I will continue to play and learn... We are having two problems with the installation of Open DeskTop. System Configuration: CompuAdd 386 25Mhz 16MB Memory Paradise 16bit VGA Logitech Serial Mouse 2 IDE drives Master - Connor 220MB Slave - Seagate 110MB 3Com 3C503 ethernet card 1) Problem # 1 is with the Logitech Mouse. The mouse is exactly the mouse described in the release notes. Both before and after making the documented changes, the mouse still does not perform correctly. Before making the changes, any mouse movement would send the pointer to the left hand margin with the capability to move up and down. After making the documentated changes, any mouse movement would send the pointer to the bottom margin with the capability to move left and right. 2) Problem # 2 is recognizing the Slave disk drive. We have had some trouble with defining a DOS partition. The solution that we would like to work with is the following: Master drive (Connor 220MB) would be dedicated 100% for Open DeskTop. The Slave drive (Seagate 110MB) would be dedicated 100% for DOS. We would boot the DOS drive via floppy, and boot Open DeskTop directly (no floppy). How do we configure the DOS drive into Open DeskTop. We have not run MAKEDEV or fdisk or any other utility. The documentation is unclear as to the steps required to bring in DOS from a second drive. Please outline the steps required. We have read about the incompatiblity with DOS 4.0 extended partitions, but all the documentation seems to point to incompatibilities with DOS and Unix on the same drive. We can easily change the configuration of the DOS drive to 4 partitions less than 32MB each if this is required. If this is true, please provide instructions on what Open DeskTop requires for installation of all four DOS partitions. Additional information for problem # 1 - partial listing of /usr/lib/event/ttys tty01 mousel4 tty02 mousel4 tty03 mousel4 tty04 mousel4 tty05 mousel4 tty06 mousel4 tty07 mousel4 tty08 mousel4 tty09 mousel4 tty10 mousel4 tty11 mousel4 tty12 mousel4 tty1a tty2a syscon mousel4 - partial listing of /usr/lib/event/devices # the frist line that is not commented out is: mousel4 /dev/tty1a RELb lt4_serial \ NAME="Logitech serial mouse: Mouse Systems emulation mode(4)" \ INIT="*nNU" STTY="CS8 1200 -IXOFF" Sensitivity=2000 # all other logitech mouses are commented out with a # at the beginning # of each new line - steps taken to get where we are currently 1) Globaly changed mousel5 to mousel4 (indicated by file above) 2) Do not believe that documentation is correct The file /usr/lib/event/devices does not start with a space on the line defining mousel4, it starts with a #. Assumed that the whole definition for mousel4 should be uncommented and that the definition should start in column # 1. In addition, commented out mousel5 (modifications show in file above) 3) mkdev mouse 4) relink kernal 5) reboot Ralph Callaway (303) 721-0851 ...!uunet!mhinfo!rwc