is it a PS/2 mouse?

if so, change your mouse device to /dev/psaux sine /dev/input/mice doesn''t seem to work for you. (what kernel are you using? uname -a)

quote: Original post by nagromo
Also, is there a way to increase the resolution of the console?

There are a couple, depending on what video system the console uses. The easiest to check is to put "vga=ask" in lilo.conf. This will cause lilo to ask you what res you would like each time you boot, so do that once, make a note of the number of the res you like, then change it to "vga={number}" in lilo.conf.

There is also the console framebuffer which may not be compiled into your kernel. Some framebuffer drivers will also come up with options at the vga=ask screen, but some, notably vesafb, won''t list their resolutions and you might have to work out the numbers (by vesafb documentation that can be found in the kernel docs somewhere) and set it manually. I''d just go for the vga=ask for now - it''d be the safest.

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Thanks for the help, everyone.

The vga=ask worked fine, I like my console much better now.

My mouse is connected to a USB port built into my motherboard. I have no idea where it is on /dev. When I do dir, it only lists about half of the entries. Is there a way around this? And, more importantly, is there a 'normal' /dev name for a usb mouse?

[edited by - nagromo on January 26, 2004 5:43:12 PM]

quote: Original post by nagromo
My mouse is connected to a USB port built into my motherboard. I have no idea where it is on /dev. When I do dir, it only lists about half of the entries. Is there a way around this? And, more importantly, is there a ''normal'' /dev name for a usb mouse?

USB mouse is normally interfaced through /dev/input/mice. Hmm. Can you run ''dmesg'' and post its output?

PS: not ''dir'', ''ls''


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Here's what dmesg says:

Linux version 2.4.23-1-686 (herbert@gondolin) (gcc version 3.3.2 (Debian)) #1 Sun Nov 30 20:51:10 EST 2003BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001fff0000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000001fff0000 - 000000001fff3000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 000000001fff3000 - 0000000020000000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)0MB HIGHMEM available.511MB LOWMEM available.ACPI: have wakeup address 0xc0001000found SMP MP-table at 000f55a0hm, page 000f5000 reserved twice.hm, page 000f6000 reserved twice.hm, page 000f1000 reserved twice.hm, page 000f2000 reserved twice.On node 0 totalpages: 131056zone(0): 4096 pages.zone(1): 126960 pages.zone(2): 0 pages.ACPI: RSDP (v000 AWARD                                     ) @ 0x000f6fd0ACPI: RSDT (v001 AWARD  AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x1fff3000ACPI: FADT (v001 AWARD  AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x1fff3040ACPI: MADT (v001 AWARD  AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x1fff70c0ACPI: DSDT (v001 AWARD  AWRDACPI 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0x00000000ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)Processor #0 Pentium 4(tm) XEON(tm) APIC version 20Using ACPI for processor (LAPIC) configuration informationIntel MultiProcessor Specification v1.4    Virtual Wire compatibility mode.OEM ID: OEM00000 Product ID: PROD00000000 APIC at: 0xFEE00000I/O APIC #2 Version 17 at 0xFEC00000.Enabling APIC mode: Flat.	Using 1 I/O APICsProcessors: 1Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=Debian root=308Initializing CPU#0Detected 2390.358 MHz processor.Console: colour VGA+ 80x34Calibrating delay loop... 4771.02 BogoMIPSMemory: 512040k/524224k available (1202k kernel code, 11800k reserved, 451k data, 112k init, 0k highmem)Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)Inode cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)Buffer cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8KCPU: L2 cache: 512KIntel machine check architecture supported.Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.CPU:     After generic, caps: 3febfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000CPU:             Common caps: 3febfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz stepping 04Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIXenabled ExtINT on CPU#0ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000ENABLING IO-APIC IRQsSetting 2 in the phys_id_present_map...changing IO-APIC physical APIC ID to 2 ... ok.init IO_APIC IRQs IO-APIC (apicid-pin) 2-0, 2-5, 2-9, 2-11, 2-19 not connected...TIMER: vector=0x31 pin1=2 pin2=0number of MP IRQ sources: 22.number of IO-APIC #2 registers: 24.testing the IO APIC.......................IO APIC #2.......... register #00: 02000000.......    : physical APIC id: 02.......    : Delivery Type: 0.......    : LTS          : 0.... register #01: 00178014.......     : max redirection entries: 0017.......     : PRQ implemented: 1.......     : IO APIC version: 0014An unexpected IO-APIC was found. If this kernel release is less thanthree months old please report this to linux-smp@vger.kernel.org.... register #02: 02000000.......     : arbitration: 02.... IRQ redirection table: NR Log Phy Mask Trig IRR Pol Stat Dest Deli Vect:    00 000 00  1    0    0   0   0    0    0    00 01 001 01  0    0    0   0   0    1    1    39 02 001 01  0    0    0   0   0    1    1    31 03 001 01  0    0    0   0   0    1    1    41 04 001 01  0    0    0   0   0    1    1    49 05 000 00  1    0    0   0   0    0    0    00 06 001 01  0    0    0   0   0    1    1    51 07 001 01  0    0    0   0   0    1    1    59 08 001 01  0    0    0   0   0    1    1    61 09 000 00  1    0    0   0   0    0    0    00 0a 001 01  0    0    0   0   0    1    1    69 0b 000 00  1    0    0   0   0    0    0    00 0c 001 01  0    0    0   0   0    1    1    71 0d 001 01  0    0    0   0   0    1    1    79 0e 001 01  0    0    0   0   0    1    1    81 0f 001 01  0    0    0   0   0    1    1    89 10 001 01  1    1    0   1   0    1    1    91 11 001 01  1    1    0   1   0    1    1    99 12 001 01  1    1    0   1   0    1    1    A1 13 000 00  1    0    0   0   0    0    0    00 14 001 01  1    1    0   1   0    1    1    A9 15 001 01  1    1    0   1   0    1    1    B1 16 001 01  1    1    0   1   0    1    1    B9 17 001 01  1    1    0   1   0    1    1    C1IRQ to pin mappings:IRQ0 -> 0:2IRQ1 -> 0:1IRQ3 -> 0:3IRQ4 -> 0:4IRQ6 -> 0:6IRQ7 -> 0:7IRQ8 -> 0:8IRQ10 -> 0:10IRQ12 -> 0:12IRQ13 -> 0:13IRQ14 -> 0:14IRQ15 -> 0:15IRQ16 -> 0:16IRQ17 -> 0:17IRQ18 -> 0:18IRQ20 -> 0:20IRQ21 -> 0:21IRQ22 -> 0:22IRQ23 -> 0:23.................................... done.Using local APIC timer interrupts.calibrating APIC timer ........ CPU clock speed is 2390.3417 MHz...... host bus clock speed is 132.7966 MHz.cpu: 0, clocks: 1327966, slice: 663983CPU0<T0:1327952,T1:663968,D:1,S:663983,C:1327966>mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)mtrr: detected mtrr type: IntelACPI: Subsystem revision 20031002ACPI: Interpreter disabled.PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb100, last bus=1PCI: Using configuration type 1PCI: Probing PCI hardwarePCI: ACPI tables contain no PCI IRQ routing entriesPCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)PCI: Using IRQ router SIS96x [1039/0008] at 00:02.0PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I2,P1) -> 17PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I2,P0) -> 17PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I2,P2) -> 18PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I3,P0) -> 20PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I3,P1) -> 21PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I3,P2) -> 22PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I3,P3) -> 23PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I12,P0) -> 18PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B1,I0,P0) -> 16Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039Initializing RT netlink socketStarting kswapdVFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)devfs: boot_options: 0x0pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configuredSerial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabledttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550AttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550ARAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksizeInitializing Cryptographic APINET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32KbytesTCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 65536)Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SMRAMDISK: cramfs filesystem found at block 0RAMDISK: Loading 3568 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk... |/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-done.Freeing initrd memory: 3568k freedVFS: Mounted root (cramfs filesystem).Freeing unused kernel memory: 112k freedNET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xxide: late registration of driver.SIS5513: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:02.5SIS5513: chipset revision 0SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs laterSIS5513: SiS 962/963 MuTIOL IDE UDMA133 controller    ide0: BM-DMA at 0x4000-0x4007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio    ide1: BM-DMA at 0x4008-0x400f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMAhda: Maxtor 6Y060L0, ATA DISK driveblk: queue e082a940, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)hdc: LITE-ON LTR-48246S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drivehdd: ATAPI DVD-ROM 16X, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM driveide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15hda: attached ide-disk driver.hda: 120103200 sectors (61493 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=119150/16/63, UDMA(133)Partition check: /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: [PTBL] [7476/255/63] p1 p2 < p5 p6 p7 p8 >Journalled Block Device driver loadedhda: attached ide-disk driver.hda: 120103200 sectors (61493 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=7476/255/63, UDMA(133) /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 < p5 p6 p7 p8 >VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev ide0(3,8).VFS: Can't find ext2 filesystem on dev ide0(3,8).Unable to identify CD-ROM format.reiserfs: found format "3.6" with standard journalreiserfs: checking transaction log (device ide0(3,8)) ...for (ide0(3,8))reiserfs: replayed 7 transactions in 0 secondside0(3,8):Using r5 hash to sort namesAdding Swap: 522072k swap-space (priority -1)Real Time Clock Driver v1.10ehdc: attached ide-cdrom driver.hdc: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12hdd: attached ide-cdrom driver.hdd: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, UDMA(33)kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 secondsEXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,7), internal journalEXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,TRISTATE]lp0: using parport0 (polling).8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.26eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xe09de000, 00:01:80:25:fa:00, IRQ 18eth0:  Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D'Intel 810 + AC97 Audio, version 0.24, 21:30:46 Nov 30 2003i810: SiS 7012 found at IO 0xdc00 and 0xd800, MEM 0x0000 and 0x0000, IRQ 18i810_audio: Audio Controller supports 6 channels.i810_audio: Defaulting to base 2 channel mode.i810_audio: Resetting connection 0ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: ALG32 (ALC650)i810_audio: AC'97 codec 0, new EID value = 0x05c7i810_audio: AC'97 codec 0, DAC map configured, total channels = 6SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devicesusb.c: registered new driver usbdevfsusb.c: registered new driver hubusb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xe0a23000, IRQ 20usb-ohci.c: usb-00:03.0, Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controllerusb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1hub.c: USB hub foundhub.c: 2 ports detectedusb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xe0a25000, IRQ 21usb-ohci.c: usb-00:03.1, Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (#2)usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2hub.c: USB hub foundhub.c: 2 ports detectedusb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xe0a27000, IRQ 22usb-ohci.c: usb-00:03.2, Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (#3)usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3hub.c: USB hub foundhub.c: 2 ports detectedhub.c: new USB device 00:03.0-1, assigned address 2usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x547/0x2131) is not claimed by any active driver.hub.c: new USB device 00:03.2-2, assigned address 2usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x458/0x1002) is not claimed by any active driver.hub.c: new USB device 00:03.1-1, assigned address 2usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x9da/0x6) is not claimed by any active driver.eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1

Oh, and one thing that might cause trouble that I just thought of... my mouse has four buttons and two scroll wheels.

[edited by - nagromo on January 27, 2004 5:36:18 PM]

quote: Original post by nagromo
Here''s what dmesg says:

Linux version 2.4.23-1-686 (herbert@gondolin) (gcc version 3.3.2 (Debian)) #1 Sun Nov 30 20:51:10 EST 2003BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001fff0000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000001fff0000 - 000000001fff3000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 000000001fff3000 - 0000000020000000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)0MB HIGHMEM available.511MB LOWMEM available.ACPI: have wakeup address 0xc0001000found SMP MP-table at 000f55a0hm, page 000f5000 reserved twice.hm, page 000f6000 reserved twice.hm, page 000f1000 reserved twice.hm, page 000f2000 reserved twice.On node 0 totalpages: 131056zone(0): 4096 pages.zone(1): 126960 pages.zone(2): 0 pages.ACPI: RSDP (v000 AWARD                                     ) @ 0x000f6fd0ACPI: RSDT (v001 AWARD  AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x1fff3000ACPI: FADT (v001 AWARD  AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x1fff3040ACPI: MADT (v001 AWARD  AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x1fff70c0ACPI: DSDT (v001 AWARD  AWRDACPI 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0x00000000ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)Processor #0 Pentium 4(tm) XEON(tm) APIC version 20Using ACPI for processor (LAPIC) configuration informationIntel MultiProcessor Specification v1.4    Virtual Wire compatibility mode.OEM ID: OEM00000 Product ID: PROD00000000 APIC at: 0xFEE00000I/O APIC #2 Version 17 at 0xFEC00000.Enabling APIC mode: Flat.	Using 1 I/O APICsProcessors: 1Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=Debian root=308Initializing CPU#0Detected 2390.358 MHz processor.Console: colour VGA+ 80x34Calibrating delay loop... 4771.02 BogoMIPSMemory: 512040k/524224k available (1202k kernel code, 11800k reserved, 451k data, 112k init, 0k highmem)Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)Inode cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)Buffer cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8KCPU: L2 cache: 512KIntel machine check architecture supported.Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.CPU:     After generic, caps: 3febfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000CPU:             Common caps: 3febfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz stepping 04Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.Checking ''hlt'' instruction... OK.POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIXenabled ExtINT on CPU#0ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000ENABLING IO-APIC IRQsSetting 2 in the phys_id_present_map...changing IO-APIC physical APIC ID to 2 ... ok.init IO_APIC IRQs IO-APIC (apicid-pin) 2-0, 2-5, 2-9, 2-11, 2-19 not connected...TIMER: vector=0x31 pin1=2 pin2=0number of MP IRQ sources: 22.number of IO-APIC #2 registers: 24.testing the IO APIC.......................IO APIC #2.......... register #00: 02000000.......    : physical APIC id: 02.......    : Delivery Type: 0.......    : LTS          : 0.... register #01: 00178014.......     : max redirection entries: 0017.......     : PRQ implemented: 1.......     : IO APIC version: 0014An unexpected IO-APIC was found. If this kernel release is less thanthree months old please report this to linux-smp@vger.kernel.org.... register #02: 02000000.......     : arbitration: 02.... IRQ redirection table: NR Log Phy Mask Trig IRR Pol Stat Dest Deli Vect:    00 000 00  1    0    0   0   0    0    0    00 01 001 01  0    0    0   0   0    1    1    39 02 001 01  0    0    0   0   0    1    1    31 03 001 01  0    0    0   0   0    1    1    41 04 001 01  0    0    0   0   0    1    1    49 05 000 00  1    0    0   0   0    0    0    00 06 001 01  0    0    0   0   0    1    1    51 07 001 01  0    0    0   0   0    1    1    59 08 001 01  0    0    0   0   0    1    1    61 09 000 00  1    0    0   0   0    0    0    00 0a 001 01  0    0    0   0   0    1    1    69 0b 000 00  1    0    0   0   0    0    0    00 0c 001 01  0    0    0   0   0    1    1    71 0d 001 01  0    0    0   0   0    1    1    79 0e 001 01  0    0    0   0   0    1    1    81 0f 001 01  0    0    0   0   0    1    1    89 10 001 01  1    1    0   1   0    1    1    91 11 001 01  1    1    0   1   0    1    1    99 12 001 01  1    1    0   1   0    1    1    A1 13 000 00  1    0    0   0   0    0    0    00 14 001 01  1    1    0   1   0    1    1    A9 15 001 01  1    1    0   1   0    1    1    B1 16 001 01  1    1    0   1   0    1    1    B9 17 001 01  1    1    0   1   0    1    1    C1IRQ to pin mappings:IRQ0 -> 0:2IRQ1 -> 0:1IRQ3 -> 0:3IRQ4 -> 0:4IRQ6 -> 0:6IRQ7 -> 0:7IRQ8 -> 0:8IRQ10 -> 0:10IRQ12 -> 0:12IRQ13 -> 0:13IRQ14 -> 0:14IRQ15 -> 0:15IRQ16 -> 0:16IRQ17 -> 0:17IRQ18 -> 0:18IRQ20 -> 0:20IRQ21 -> 0:21IRQ22 -> 0:22IRQ23 -> 0:23.................................... done.Using local APIC timer interrupts.calibrating APIC timer ........ CPU clock speed is 2390.3417 MHz...... host bus clock speed is 132.7966 MHz.cpu: 0, clocks: 1327966, slice: 663983CPU0<T0:1327952,T1:663968,D:1,S:663983,C:1327966>mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)mtrr: detected mtrr type: IntelACPI: Subsystem revision 20031002ACPI: Interpreter disabled.PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb100, last bus=1PCI: Using configuration type 1PCI: Probing PCI hardwarePCI: ACPI tables contain no PCI IRQ routing entriesPCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)PCI: Using IRQ router SIS96x [1039/0008] at 00:02.0PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I2,P1) -> 17PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I2,P0) -> 17PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I2,P2) -> 18PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I3,P0) -> 20PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I3,P1) -> 21PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I3,P2) -> 22PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I3,P3) -> 23PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I12,P0) -> 18PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B1,I0,P0) -> 16Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039Initializing RT netlink socketStarting kswapdVFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)devfs: boot_options: 0x0pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configuredSerial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabledttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550AttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550ARAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksizeInitializing Cryptographic APINET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32KbytesTCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 65536)Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SMRAMDISK: cramfs filesystem found at block 0RAMDISK: Loading 3568 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk... |/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-done.Freeing initrd memory: 3568k freedVFS: Mounted root (cramfs filesystem).Freeing unused kernel memory: 112k freedNET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xxide: late registration of driver.SIS5513: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:02.5SIS5513: chipset revision 0SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs laterSIS5513: SiS 962/963 MuTIOL IDE UDMA133 controller    ide0: BM-DMA at 0x4000-0x4007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio    ide1: BM-DMA at 0x4008-0x400f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMAhda: Maxtor 6Y060L0, ATA DISK driveblk: queue e082a940, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)hdc: LITE-ON LTR-48246S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drivehdd: ATAPI DVD-ROM 16X, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM driveide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15hda: attached ide-disk driver.hda: 120103200 sectors (61493 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=119150/16/63, UDMA(133)Partition check: /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: [PTBL] [7476/255/63] p1 p2 < p5 p6 p7 p8 >Journalled Block Device driver loadedhda: attached ide-disk driver.hda: 120103200 sectors (61493 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=7476/255/63, UDMA(133) /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 < p5 p6 p7 p8 >VFS: Can''t find ext3 filesystem on dev ide0(3,8).VFS: Can''t find ext2 filesystem on dev ide0(3,8).Unable to identify CD-ROM format.reiserfs: found format "3.6" with standard journalreiserfs: checking transaction log (device ide0(3,8)) ...for (ide0(3,8))reiserfs: replayed 7 transactions in 0 secondside0(3,8):Using r5 hash to sort namesAdding Swap: 522072k swap-space (priority -1)Real Time Clock Driver v1.10ehdc: attached ide-cdrom driver.hdc: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12hdd: attached ide-cdrom driver.hdd: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, UDMA(33)kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 secondsEXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,7), internal journalEXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,TRISTATE]lp0: using parport0 (polling).8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.26eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xe09de000, 00:01:80:25:fa:00, IRQ 18eth0:  Identified 8139 chip type ''RTL-8100B/8139D''Intel 810 + AC97 Audio, version 0.24, 21:30:46 Nov 30 2003i810: SiS 7012 found at IO 0xdc00 and 0xd800, MEM 0x0000 and 0x0000, IRQ 18i810_audio: Audio Controller supports 6 channels.i810_audio: Defaulting to base 2 channel mode.i810_audio: Resetting connection 0ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: ALG32 (ALC650)i810_audio: AC''97 codec 0, new EID value = 0x05c7i810_audio: AC''97 codec 0, DAC map configured, total channels = 6SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devicesusb.c: registered new driver usbdevfsusb.c: registered new driver hubusb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xe0a23000, IRQ 20usb-ohci.c: usb-00:03.0, Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controllerusb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1hub.c: USB hub foundhub.c: 2 ports detectedusb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xe0a25000, IRQ 21usb-ohci.c: usb-00:03.1, Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (#2)usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2hub.c: USB hub foundhub.c: 2 ports detectedusb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xe0a27000, IRQ 22usb-ohci.c: usb-00:03.2, Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (#3)usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3hub.c: USB hub foundhub.c: 2 ports detectedhub.c: new USB device 00:03.0-1, assigned address 2usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x547/0x2131) is not claimed by any active driver.hub.c: new USB device 00:03.2-2, assigned address 2usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x458/0x1002) is not claimed by any active driver.hub.c: new USB device 00:03.1-1, assigned address 2usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x9da/0x6) is not claimed by any active driver.eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1

Oh, and one thing that might cause trouble that I just thought of... my mouse has four buttons and two scroll wheels.

OK, there are two ways to solve this. One is to install the "hotplug" package. This will run a daemon that handles hotplugging and loading drivers for usb devices. (It can handle pci, too, but not many people do pci hotplugging, support for it in the kernel is still experimental, and only certain devices support it.) The other option is to add the line "hid" (I think) to /etc/modules

I''d recommend the hotplug package. It''ll take care of whatever usb devices you have.

As for the mouse buttons etc, the pointer should work just fine, but it might be a bit of effort to get the extra buttons and wheels setup correctly as that''s quite unusual.

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Yes, it works! Now, how do I change the desktop resolution?

[edited by - nagromo on January 27, 2004 10:45:27 PM]

As root: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86

Towards the screens at the end you can select which resolutions you want. The thing is you want to deselect all the ones higher than the one you want to work with since the highest one will determine the size of the virtual display.

It''s a bit bizarre for the newcomer, but you can''t actually switch the size of the virtual display on the fly like windows can (yet - X 4.3 can do this, but that isn''t in Debian yet, so don''t worry about it). You can change the screen resolution, but the virtual display stays the same size - eg 800x600 virtual display, you can press CTRL+ALT+NUMPAD_PLUS the screen will switch to 640x480, but the display will still be 800 wide and 600 high and you can move the view around with the mouse to the edge of the screen.

Resolutions are a bit of a minefield in X, so it''s just best to pick a nice one and disable all the ones above it.

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Thanks, it''s not running at some weird square resolution anymore. But when I first installed Debian, xdm wasn''t starting properly and no longer automatically starts. It says something like Not starting xdm; it is not the default display manager. How can I tell it to automatically start xdm?

quote: Original post by nagromo
Thanks, it''s not running at some weird square resolution anymore. But when I first installed Debian, xdm wasn''t starting properly and no longer automatically starts. It says something like Not starting xdm; it is not the default display manager. How can I tell it to automatically start xdm?

To do it mindlessly (it''ll present a menu listing the available display managers and let you pick one): run dpkg-reconfigure xdm. I don''t think it''ll neglect to ask that question even if you set your debconf level to something really assuming, but if it does come bother us again . Also, If you''re a GNOME or KDE fan (or whatever), you might want to install gdm or kdm to replace xdm.