lucky13
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Posted: Mar. 02 2007,23:20 |
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| Quote (kore @ Mar. 02 2007,13:06) | excellent reply lucky,
I apologize for the kernel comment & if the text carried over badly  . I humbly take it back. |
No problem and no apologies necessary.
| Quote | | 1. I noticed some newbies comment in that way...without knowing the history/background/implication of the loose comments. No malicious intention & didn't mean any disrespect. Just newbie ignorance & buckshot-blaming. I agree user-error is the prime reason for most problems (everywhere). |
I know everyone's at a different position on the learning curve, and that some people move along the curve a lot faster than others. I'm only trying to help people regardless of where they are. I didn't take any offense or misinterpret your remark about the kernel. I only wanted you to know that c/fdisk both work without much regard for kernel version (how a kernel and its modules are configured is a different story).
| Quote | ...*Letme get on the puppy machine to post the "fdisk -l" output.
(After latest puppy install-current state).
Disk /dev/hda: 61.4 GB, 61492838400 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 119150 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 969 488344+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda2 * 970 10657 4882752 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 10658 30974 10239768 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 30975 119150 44440704 83 Linux
sh-3.00# |
Hmmm, I've used DSL many times to partition devices (hard drives, various USB devices, etc.). How were you running DSL when you tried to partition? (cheatcodes?)
| Quote | | 3. I rechecked with puppy's gparted & cfdisk; and the HDDs are good & partitions remained the same state as before the DSL fdisk/cfdisk testing. I then repartitioned, reformat & reinstalled via puppy. |
At least you know the drives are good. You should also be able to install DSL with the drive repartitioned, if that was what you intended. I still don't know why you had problems partitioning under DSL.
| Quote | | Thus I am back at the serial mouse problem (in puppy). |
You may find someone here able to help you, but puppy has its own forums. And I should be candid: I'm not a fan of puppy (I think the overall plan is worthwhile, but I just don't care for the rather, ummm, peculiar execution of it even though I know their target audience is Windows users who need to ease into Linux; it's just a little goofy to me -- no Disney puns intended).
| Quote | | I searched the puppy resources & found the exact advice you gave about "protocol""microsoft" & "/dev/ttyS0". |
That's what should work since xorg pretty much works the same regardless of distro.
| Quote | | *The problem is puppyserialdetect (at bootup) is detecting the serial mouse as ps/2, 50% of the time. |
I don't know if Puppy has any cheatcodes, much less if there's one for setting up a serial mouse. You might want to check that out. You might also want to see if that's an issue its developers care to tackle in their (auto)configuration -- especially if their script isn't consistently detecting something like that.
| Quote | | 4. I have found an interim solution... But, I can't get the mouse setting to stick. |
Check with their forums. I've spent less than an hour fiddling with puppy and (as you can tell from above) I really haven't cared enough about it to see how it saves its settings.
| Quote | | **p.s. Before puppy, I installed Vector & also modified /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.in to try to wake the serial mouse, but failed. |
Did you change the same two lines? It should've worked unless you have some weird mouse that's not even MS-compatible (maybe that's why puppy gets it right only sometimes?), but then it most likely wouldn't work in other distros, either, if they use xorg since its configuration is going to be the same (so long as you have the right drivers for your hardware).
| Quote | | **p.s. Due to this testing, I have also learned more about Linux. Thankyou. |
No problem. That's what the forums are for, and "testing" is the fun part of the learning curve (once you get past any frustration, and you will get past it if you try).
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1. I noticed some newbies comment in that way...without knowing the history/background/implication of the loose comments. No malicious intention & didn't mean any disrespect. Just newbie ignorance & buckshot-blaming. I agree user-error is the prime reason for most problems (everywhere).