Re: Install i386 or amd64?

[Brett Lymn <blymn%internode.on.net@localhost>]

On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 11:18:57AM -0000, David Lord wrote:
> On 3 Feb 2014 at 5:46, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> 
> .....
> 
> 
> > I've built modular (pkgsrc) xorg, and it either doesn't 
> > start at all, or mouse pointer moves horizontally but not
> > up and down, meaning crippled.
>  
> 
> I had that with pkgsrc-2013Q3 but gnome worked ok after I 
> refetched sources and built all packages again (about 2000)
> from a clean start. I'm now on pkgsrc-2013Q4. I've no idea
> if installed multimedia packages are working but I don't
> mind also having installs of Linux and FreeBSD 
> 

Back in the "old days" a mouse moving in only one direction indicated
you were using the wrong mouse protocol.  Perhaps there was a bug that
caused Xorg to guess wrongly.

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Brett Lymn
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