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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!ieunet!maths.tcd.ie!not-for-mail From: dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie (David Malone) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: V 2.1 "XFree86" Installation questions Date: 3 Jan 1996 19:39:52 -0000 Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Lines: 30 Message-ID: <4cem28$p1@hamilton.maths.tcd.ie> References: <4ce4pv$plp@newsbf02.news.aol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: hamilton.maths.tcd.ie dabloodgod@aol.com (DABLOODGOD) writes: >1) How do I get my Microsoft bus mouse ( Inport ) to work in X - As far as >I can tell, the Kernel is correct - Interrupt 5 and I/O port addresses of >0x23c to 0x23f ( the defaults ). /dev/mse0 is mapped to /dev/mouse. The X Try /dev/ttyd0 - this is the first serial port, which the mouse is probably plugged into. >2) The video display is not correct either, the login box is sort of 1/4 >on the screen - ( rather than being centered on the screen ). I assume >this means that the video mode stuff isn't working correctly. I have a ATI >Mach64 w 2MBytes, Ive set up the monitor stuff to match my Nanao F550i. >Any Ideas ? You have the virtual size of the screen set to larger that the real size. You can "push" the screen around when the mouse works to get at the full size ( or if you really want the small size edit your config file and make the virtual size smaller ). >3) Finally, as Im fooling with this, it would be really handy if I could >use telnet from the other machine on my 2 machine lan, to login as root, >in order to kill / shutdown or modify files, rather than having to reboot >once X hangs up. Is there some incantation that allows root to login over Can't you put yourself in group wheel and then su to root ? Also ctrl-alt-backspace should kill the X server. David.