no freagin way---!!!
ah yeah, PCLINUXOS has been a biatch about power management so figured i'd ditch it in favor of Vecotr 5.1, so i installed it, and i like it, but need to still tweak some last minute things, and thus this thread.
Namely......
Mouse : The touchpad works great, but my USB mouse doesn't. The wireless keyboard (that shares the adapter with the mouse) works great, but not the mouse, I figure it has something to do with the mouse section of the "xorg.conf" but i am not really sure what... i remember i had a similar issue on my last gentoo attempt, but I don't remember the fix, and beats me if its a vector-friendly fix.
The Wireless:
I installed the madiwifi package that comes on the installation cd, I also installed the ndiswrapper package. When I try to modprobe ath_hal and ath_pci (required for madwifi) i get some errors, then agian i get the same error when i just type in "modprobe" as root. Eww! bad. I haven't tried ndiswarpper because its my last reserve, getting native madwifi to go is my preferance, but i don't know what to do. At the very least, i know the installer found my card, but when i run ifconfig only lo comes up. wtf?
FGLRX:
Once the internet is up, getting graphics drivers i think will be nice, make this sucker evne faster.
thats it for now....those 2 must be f1x0r3d first, then we shall see, but overall i must say i love it. Its fast, its solid (slackware...duh!) and XFCE r0x0rz my socks! (lol..screw KDE!)
anyway...help will be appreciated.
EDIT:
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found how i fixed it in gentoo, it was a matter of changing the mouse from "/dev/mouse0" to "/dev/input/mice" and thats what i just tried in vector, xorg dies complaining about a lack of a core pointer. grr, only way it runs is if its set to "/dev/mouse" and thats it. what a pain! grr!
as long as i was booting things though, here are some boot times:
WinXP Pro SP2 : 27.6 sec from the time i select "windows" in lilo to the time i see my desktop
Vector: 35.0 sec from the time i pick "linux" in lilo to the time the login menu pops up. pretty good if you ask me!
ah yeah, PCLINUXOS has been a biatch about power management so figured i'd ditch it in favor of Vecotr 5.1, so i installed it, and i like it, but need to still tweak some last minute things, and thus this thread.
Namely......
Mouse : The touchpad works great, but my USB mouse doesn't. The wireless keyboard (that shares the adapter with the mouse) works great, but not the mouse, I figure it has something to do with the mouse section of the "xorg.conf" but i am not really sure what... i remember i had a similar issue on my last gentoo attempt, but I don't remember the fix, and beats me if its a vector-friendly fix.
The Wireless:
I installed the madiwifi package that comes on the installation cd, I also installed the ndiswrapper package. When I try to modprobe ath_hal and ath_pci (required for madwifi) i get some errors, then agian i get the same error when i just type in "modprobe" as root. Eww! bad. I haven't tried ndiswarpper because its my last reserve, getting native madwifi to go is my preferance, but i don't know what to do. At the very least, i know the installer found my card, but when i run ifconfig only lo comes up. wtf?
FGLRX:
Once the internet is up, getting graphics drivers i think will be nice, make this sucker evne faster.
thats it for now....those 2 must be f1x0r3d first, then we shall see, but overall i must say i love it. Its fast, its solid (slackware...duh!) and XFCE r0x0rz my socks! (lol..screw KDE!)
anyway...help will be appreciated.
EDIT:
------------
found how i fixed it in gentoo, it was a matter of changing the mouse from "/dev/mouse0" to "/dev/input/mice" and thats what i just tried in vector, xorg dies complaining about a lack of a core pointer. grr, only way it runs is if its set to "/dev/mouse" and thats it. what a pain! grr!
as long as i was booting things though, here are some boot times:
WinXP Pro SP2 : 27.6 sec from the time i select "windows" in lilo to the time i see my desktop
Vector: 35.0 sec from the time i pick "linux" in lilo to the time the login menu pops up. pretty good if you ask me!
Sorry.
