[wellylug] RE: Help with X

[Peter Dawson]

>Quoting Peter Dawson <peter_dawson at eagle.co.nz>:
>
>> I have recently convinced my son to ditch W98 and go with Debian,
>> however we seemed to have booboo-ed in the install as his mouse is
>> playing up and we aren't sure that we have X correctly configured for
>> his video card.
>> 
>> I'll be bringing the lad and his computer to the LUG tonight, so can
>> someone kindly give us a hand to sort it out? (I'm still too much of a
>> newbie to be a lot of help to him on the innards of X...)
>> 
>> Cheers, Phreadde! (aka nametag guy)
>Peter,
>
>Can you post the x-config file and a description of
>the card (lspci -v) plus info about the type of rodent
>you're using (e.g. PS/2, USB, wheelmouse)? 
>
Hi there...

I'm afraid it's a bit tricky doing diagnostics just now.

The machine is in the boot of my car (L1 ET House), and the root password is in the head of said son (security rules!) currently at college in Upper Hutt.

Doubtless we can get it all together at the LUG meeting, but thanks for the offer.

The mouse is a Gigabyte Optical Wheel mouse and was on USB at the time of install (and the installer didn't give the choice of USB, only PS/2 & Serial), and has since been moved to PS/2 with no discernable effect.

The video card is a Pine AGP SiS 315 32Mb Graphics Card, chipset uncertain to my knowledge. We took the proffered Nvidia option.

Cheers

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