On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 09:07:21PM +0000, Alex van Denzel wrote:
> Riaz Janjua wrote:
> > I am tried to configure X on the machine using XF86Config, which I created
> > in /etc directory using xf86config command. But it was failing. Through some
> > search I found 'SuperProbe' command to check for the hardware. When I run
> > this command, I get the following message
> > 
> > SuperProbe: Cannot open /dev/vga nor /dev/ttyv0

I don't have a 1.4.2 box with X available, but this should be
clear enough...

1.4.2 ships with wscons (new console driver) - SuperProbe in
-current is smart enough to check /dev/ttyE0, which is the console
device, but it might not have been so in 1.4.2

ln /dev/ttyE0 /dev/vga

SuperProbe should be happy with that (it worked on a 1.4 box I tested.)

> > I believe that I also have problem with pointer device. How to create driver
> > for mouse.
> 
> For the i386 kernel, the mouse driver in GENERIC is opms, and this one
> seems to be incompatible with X. So ask someone to build a kernel with
> pms and wsmouse installed, and setup X with the wsmouse driver.

opms isn't incompatible with X, but it does something that you need to be
'expecting'. It turns a physical PS2 mouse into a virtual Busmouse.

If you're using a GENERIC kernel, and your mouse comes up at boot
(and in 'dmesg') as opms0, then for X, choose

Protocol "Busmouse"
Device   "/dev/pms0"    # Note the lack of 'o'

And you should be in good shape.

-- 
David Maxwell, david@vex.net|david@maxwell.net -->
All this stuff in twice the space would only look half as bad!
					      - me