How to setup Slackware with a Toshiba Satellite Notebook
Gossamer Axe gsmraxe@metaledge.darktech.org
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I do not guarantee that this setup file will make your notebook
work This is just what I did to get mine to work, if it helps
someone great
I bought a Toshiba Satellite notebook a few months back. It was a bit of a
pain in the ass as far as the sound card went, so Im writing this for
anyone else that has one.
Specs:
Intel Celeron 900mhz processor
128 Megs of ram
16meg video shared with RAM
10 gig hard drive
DVD rom
16bit sound card
13.3 display
built in software modem forget this
Im dualbooting with windoze molasses millenium so I can use turbo pascal
7 to compile my bbs programs for both dos/linux.
Note: this machine comes with windowsxp home edition. I promptly deleted
it from the hard drive, because, it sucks It comes with quick restore
disks, so you cant even repartition the drive with fips, because of the
ntfs partition. All of the drivers for windows, you need to get on toshibas
web page and download for 9x/me because the drivers are also quick restored
You should know that you have to install Windows first, partition the first
part of the drive, install win, boot to a cd you can do this with this
laptop, and install Linux.
The installation acted like installing Linux on a PC so no real instructions
are needed here.
I have a network card pcmcia, so I enabled the pcmcia stuff to start when
I bootup. Slackware found the card and installed it as a module. Its a
netgear, so it is used as a NE2000 compatable.
In order to get my soundcard to work right, I had to grab the latest kernel
which at that time was 2.4.15-greasedturkey.
tar -zxvf linux-2.4.15.tar.gz or whatever its called
itll overwrite your other kernel, so move it first if you want to save it.
cd linux
make mrproper
make menuconfig
Code maturity level options ---
* Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers
should be enabled. Dont ask why, I just enable it always have
Loadable module support ---
* Enable loadable module support
Set version information on all module symbols
* Kernel module loader
Processor type and features ---
* Toshiba Laptop support
should be enabled, it is a toshiba laptop
X Pentium-III/CeleronCoppermine
because it is technically a PIII w/out the extra cache on it.
General setup ---
* Networking support
* PCI support
Any PCI access mode
* PCI device name database
EISA support
MCA support
* Support for hot-pluggable devices
PCMCIA/CardBus support ---
* PCMCIA/CardBus support
* CardBus support
* i82092 compatible bridge support
* i82365 compatible bridge support
Databook TCIC host bridge support
PCI Hotplug Support ---
* System V IPC
BSD Process Accounting
* Sysctl support
ELF Kernel core /proc/kcore format
* Kernel support for a.out binaries
* Kernel support for ELF binaries
* Kernel support for MISC binaries
* Power Management support
* ACPI support
ACPI Debug Statements
ACPI Bus Manager
* Advanced Power Management BIOS support
Ignore USER SUSPEND
Enable PM at boot time
Make CPU Idle calls when idle
Enable console blanking using APM
RTC stores time in GMT
Allow interrupts during APM BIOS calls
Use real mode APM BIOS call to power off
Memory Technology Devices MTD ---
do not enable the above
Parallel port support ---
* Parallel port support
* PC-style hardware
* Multi-IO cards parallel and serial
* Use FIFO/DMA if available EXPERIMENTAL
SuperIO chipset support EXPERIMENTAL
Support for PCMCIA management for PC-style ports
Support foreign hardware
IEEE 1284 transfer modes
Plug and Play configuration ---
* Plug and Play support
* ISA Plug and Play support
Block devices ---
* Normal PC floppy disk support
XT hard disk support
Parallel port IDE device support
Compaq SMART2 support
Compaq Smart Array 5xxx support
Mylex DAC960/DAC1100 PCI RAID Controller support
* Loopback device support
Network block device support
RAM disk support
Multi-device support RAID and LVM ---
Networking options ---
* Packet socket
Packet socket: mmapped IO
Kernel/User netlink socket
Network packet filtering replaces ipchains
Socket Filtering
* Unix domain sockets
* TCP/IP networking
* IP: multicasting
IP: advanced router
IP: kernel level autoconfiguration
IP: tunneling
IP: GRE tunnels over IP
IP: multicast routing
IP: TCP Explicit Congestion Notification support
IP: TCP syncookie support disabled per default
The IPv6 protocol EXPERIMENTAL
Kernel httpd acceleration EXPERIMENTAL
Asynchronous Transfer Mode ATM EXPERIMENTAL
802.1Q VLAN Support EXPERIMENTAL
The IPX protocol
Appletalk protocol support
DECnet Support
802.1d Ethernet Bridging
CCITT X.25 Packet Layer EXPERIMENTAL
LAPB Data Link Driver EXPERIMENTAL
802.2 LLC EXPERIMENTAL
Frame Diverter EXPERIMENTAL
Acorn Econet/AUN protocols EXPERIMENTAL
WAN router
Fast switching read help!
Forwarding between high speed interfaces
QoS and/or fair queueing ---
Telephony Support ---
None here
ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support ---
I left this default
SCSI support ---
Disable SCSI support, it isnt necessary unless
You have a cdburner
Fusion MPT device support ---
IEEE 1394 FireWire support EXPERIMENTAL ---
I2O device support ---
the above 3 should be disabled.
Network device support ---
* Network device support
ARCnet devices ---
* Dummy net driver support
Bonding driver support
EQL serial line load balancing support
Universal TUN/TAP device driver support
General Instruments Surfboard 1000
Ethernet 10 or 100Mbit ---
Ethernet 1000 Mbit ---
FDDI driver support
HIPPI driver support EXPERIMENTAL
PLIP parallel port support
PPP point-to-point protocol support
SLIP serial line support
Wireless LAN non-hamradio ---
Token Ring devices ---
Fibre Channel driver support
Red Creek Hardware VPN EXPERIMENTAL
Traffic Shaper EXPERIMENTAL
Wan interfaces ---
PCMCIA network device support ---
* PCMCIA network device support
3Com 3c589 PCMCIA support
3Com 3c574 PCMCIA support
Fujitsu FMV-J18x PCMCIA support
* NE2000 compatible PCMCIA support
New Media PCMCIA support
SMC 91Cxx PCMCIA support
Xircom 16-bit PCMCIA support
broken NS8390-cards support
Xircom CardBus support new driver
Xircom Tulip-like CardBus support old driver
Pcmcia Wireless LAN
This is just for me, my ethernet card I added later.
Amateur Radio support ---
IrDA infrared support ---
ISDN subsystem ---
Old CD-ROM drivers not SCSI, not IDE---
Input core support ---
Nothing for the above 5...
Character devices ---
* Virtual terminal
* Support for console on virtual terminal
* Standard/generic 8250/16550 and compatible UARTs serial support
Support for console on serial port
Support for serial ports defined by ACPI tables
Extended dumb serial driver options
Non-standard serial port support
* Unix98 PTY support
256 Maximum number of Unix98 PTYs in use 0-2048
* Parallel printer support
Support for console on line printer
Support for user-space parallel port device drivers
I2C support ---
Mice ---
Joysticks ---
QIC-02 tape support
Watchdog Cards ---
Intel i8x0 Random Number Generator support
/dev/nvram support
Enhanced Real Time Clock Support
Double Talk PC internal speech card support
Siemens R3964 line discipline
Applicom intelligent fieldbus card support
Sony Vaio Programmable I/O Control Device support
Ftape, the floppy tape device driver ---
/dev/agpgart AGP Support
Direct Rendering Manager XFree86 4.1.0 and higher DRI support
PCMCIA character devices ---
* PCMCIA serial device support
ACP Modem Mwave support
Multimedia devices ---
Nothing here
File systems ---
Quota support
Kernel automounter support
* Kernel automounter version 4 support also supports v3
Reiserfs support
ADFS file system support
Amiga FFS file system support EXPERIMENTAL
Apple Macintosh file system support EXPERIMENTAL
BFS file system support EXPERIMENTAL
Ext3 journalling file system support EXPERIMENTAL
* DOS FAT fs support
* MSDOS fs support
UMSDOS: Unix-like file system on top of standard MSDOS fs
* VFAT Windows-95 fs support
Since i have win on the first partition, I enable dos
EFS file system support read only EXPERIMENTAL
Compressed ROM file system support
* Virtual memory file system support former shm fs
Simple RAM-based file system support
* ISO 9660 CDROM file system support
* Microsoft Joliet CDROM extensions
Transparent decompression extension
Minix fs support
FreeVxFS file system support VERITAS VxFSTM compatible
NTFS file system support read only
OS/2 HPFS file system support
* /proc file system support
/dev file system support EXPERIMENTAL
* /dev/pts file system for Unix98 PTYs
QNX4 file system support read only EXPERIMENTAL
ROM file system support
* Second extended fs support
System V/Xenix/V7/Coherent file system support
* UDF file system support read only
This is for the DVD rom
Console drivers ---
Sound ---
* Trident 4DWave DX/NX, SiS 7018 or ALi 5451 PCI Audio Core
* OSS sound modules
* Yamaha FM synthesizer YM3812/OPL-3 support
USB support ---
I left all USB supported, the laptop comes with 2 usb ports
Bluetooth support ---
Kernel hacking ---
Load an Alternate Configuration File
Save Configuration to an Alternate File
thats pretty much it for the kernel. Save it:
make dep make clean make bzImage make modules make modulesinstall
copy bzImage to where ever you have your kernel and load up lilo.conf in /etc
LILO configuration file
generated by liloconfig
Start LILO global section
boot /dev/hda
message /boot/bootmessage.txt
prompt
timeout 1200
Override dangerous defaults that rewrite the partition table:
change-rules
reset
vgaask
VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x64k
vga 791
Normal VGA console
vga normal
VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x64k
vga791
VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x32k
vga790
VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x256
vga773
VESA framebuffer console @ 800x600x64k
vga788
VESA framebuffer console @ 800x600x32k
vga787
VESA framebuffer console @ 800x600x256
vga771
VESA framebuffer console @ 640x480x64k
vga785
VESA framebuffer console @ 640x480x32k
vga784
VESA framebuffer console @ 640x480x256
vga769
End LILO global section
DOS bootable partition config begins
other /dev/hda1
label DOS
table /dev/hda
DOS bootable partition config ends
Linux bootable partition config begins
image /boot/bzImage
root /dev/hda2
label Linux
read-only
Linux bootable partition config ends
This is my config, your mileage will vary I sometimes change vga 791 to vga ask when
Im testing door games, otherwise ansis come out split screen and it sucks
You can then hit enter to see a list of screen sizes like 80x24 and pick which one you want.
Run lilo a couple of times and reboot. Everything should come up roses. If you see a lot
of module errors, just edit /etc/rc.d/rc.modules and comment out the ones Slackware put in there.
It loves to load up ppp and its bretheren, so unless you have a dialup account, you can safely
comment these out.
the networking stuff is a breeze with slackware. You can run netconfig and set it up
or go into /etc/rc.d and edit rc.inet1 with your stuff. Just plug in the necessary
numbers for your IP gateway etc., and it should work. Dont forget resolv.conf in
/etc
search yourisp.com
nameserver 000.00.00.00
nameserver 000.00.00.00
Also, if you want to mount drives from other machines, and have them mount the laptops
drive, edit /etc/exports
/ 192.168.1.1rw,norootsquash
/ 192.168.1.2rw,norootsquash
to allow the 1 and 2 computers to use the drives on the laptop.
If youre gonna have your laptop hooked up to your network for long periods of time, you
might want to disable ftp, telnet etc., from inetd.conf. Just put a infront of the
lines you dont need. Its safer to disable this stuff
Heres mine. I disabled most stuff except for the necessary things.
See man 8 inetd for more information.
If you make changes to this file, either reboot your machine or send the
inetd a HUP signal:
Do a ps x as root and look up the pid of inetd. Then do a
kill -HUP pid of inetd.
The inetd will re-read this file whenever it gets that signal.
servicename socktype proto flags user serverpath args
The first 4 services are really only used for debugging purposes, so
we comment them out since they can otherwise be used for some nasty
denial-of-service attacks. If you need them, uncomment them.
echo stream tcp nowait root internal
echo dgram udp wait root internal
discard stream tcp nowait root internal
discard dgram udp wait root internal
daytime stream tcp nowait root internal
daytime dgram udp wait root internal
chargen stream tcp nowait root internal
chargen dgram udp wait root internal
time stream tcp nowait root internal
time dgram udp wait root internal
These are standard services.
Washington University FTP Daemon:
ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd wu.ftpd -l -i -a
ProFTPD FTP Daemon:
ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd proftpd
telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.telnetd
This is for BSD sendmail. NOTE: Its not a good idea to uncomment this
one, since sendmail is already set up to run as a daemon in /etc/rc.d/rc.M.
But, if you really want to run sendmail this way for some reason, youll
need to uncomment the smtp line below AND change the line in /etc/rc.d/rc.M
to run sendmail like this: /usr/sbin/sendmail -q30m
...otherwise the queue will not be processed.
smtp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd sendmail -bs
The comsat daemon notifies the user of new mail when biff is set to y:
comsat dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.comsat
Shell, login, exec and talk are BSD protocols.
shell stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.rshd -L
login stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.rlogind
exec stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.rexecd
talk dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.talkd
ntalk dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.talkd
To use the talk daemons from KDE, comment the talk and ntalk lines above
and uncomment the ones below:
talk dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /opt/kde/bin/kotalkd
ntalk dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /opt/kde/bin/ktalkd
Kerberos authenticated services
klogin stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd rlogind -k
eklogin stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd rlogind -k -x
kshell stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd rshd -k
Services run ONLY on the Kerberos server
krbupdate stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd registerd
kpasswd stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd kpasswdd
POP and IMAP mail servers:
pop2 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.pop2d
Traditional BSD-based in.pop3d:
pop3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.pop3d
GNU pop3d probably the most secure:
pop3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd gnu-pop3d
The ipop3d POP3 server is part of the Pine distribution. If youve
installed the Pine package, you may wish to switch to ipop3d by
commenting out the pop3 line above, and uncommenting the pop3 line below.
pop3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd ipop3d
imap2 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd imapd
The Internet UUCP service.
uucp stream tcp nowait uucp /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/lib/uucp/uucico -l
Tftp service is provided primarily for booting. Most sites
run this only on machines acting as boot servers.
tftp dgram udp wait nobody /usr/sbin/tcpd in.tftpd
bootps dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/bootpd bootpd
Finger, systat and netstat give out user information which may be
valuable to potential system crackers. Many sites choose to disable
some or all of these services to improve security.
Try telnet localhost systat and telnet localhost netstat to see that
information yourself!
finger stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/sbin/tcpd in.fingerd -u
systat stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/sbin/tcpd /bin/ps -auwwx
netstat stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /bin/netstat -a
Ident service is used for net authentication
Since we start identd as nobody, it cant write a .pid file in /var/run, so tell it
to use /dev/null. This is of little importance unless you run identd as a
standalone daemon anyway.
auth stream tcp wait nobody /usr/sbin/in.identd in.identd -P/dev/null
These are to start Samba, an smb server that can export filesystems to
Pathworks, Lanmanager for DOS, Windows for Workgroups, Windows95, Lanmanager
for Windows, Lanmanager for OS/2, Windows NT, etc.
If youre running smbd and nmbd from daemons in /etc/rc.d/rc.samba, then you
shouldnt uncomment these lines.
netbios-ssn stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/smbd smbd
netbios-ns dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/nmbd nmbd
Sun-RPC based services.
service name/versionsocktyperpc/protflagsuserserverargs
rstatd/1-3 dgram rpc/udp wait root /usr/sbin/tcpd rpc.rstatd
rusersd/2-3 dgram rpc/udp wait root /usr/sbin/tcpd rpc.rusersd
walld/1 dgram rpc/udp wait root /usr/sbin/tcpd rpc.rwalld
End of inetd.conf.
If you want to run services such as telnet and ftp dont uncomment these
out.
X was a pain in the ass to setup too I ran the non-graphical setup
and found that it created two config files, of which the first one wouldnt
load, so i had to rename the 2nd one The graphics card in this laptop
is a Trident, its a pain to configure, the following is my XF86Config
which is found in /etc/X11
File generated by xf86config.
Copyright c 1999 by The XFree86 Project, Inc.
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
copy of this software and associated documentation files the Software,
to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED AS IS, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL
THE XFREE86 PROJECT BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY,
WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF
OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.
Except as contained in this notice, the name of the XFree86 Project shall
not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or other
dealings in this Software without prior written authorization from the
XFree86 Project.
Refer to the XF86Config4/5 man page for details about the format of
this file.
This XF86Config file is designed for use with the Linux framebuffer console.
This generic interface should work with nearly all video cards although
not every card will support every resolution. To use the Linux framebuffer
console, you need to enable these kernel options:
Using make menuconfig, in console drivers, enable:
* VGA text console
* Video mode selection support
* Support for frame buffer devices EXPERIMENTAL
* VESA VGA graphics console
* Advanced low level driver options
* 8 bpp packed pixels support
* 16 bpp packed pixels support
* 24 bpp packed pixels support
* 32 bpp packed pixels support
* VGA characters/attributes support
* Select compiled-in fonts
* VGA 8x8 font
* VGA 8x16 font
If you have a Matrox or ATI Mach64, you might try enabling the options having
to do with those cards as well. However, if the card is VESA compliant, you
dont really need to and it might cause problems, possibly
Next, if this file is not already named /etc/X11/XF86Config, make a copy
with that name. This file ships with the name XF86Config-fbdev to avoid
overwriting an existing config file.
To get the kernel to start in VESA framebuffer mode, you need to pass it
a vga init string at boot time. For example, if you use LILO youll
probably find a vganormal string in your /etc/lilo.conf. If you edit that
to one of the values in this table:
Colours 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200
256 769 771 773 775 796
32,768 784 787 790 793 797
65,536 785 788 791 794 798
16.8M 786 789 792 795 799
...such as this for 1024x768x64k:
vga 791
and then reinstall LILO by running lilo as root, then at the next boot
Linux should start in a VESA framebuffer console mode.
For more information on how to activate the Linux frame buffer, see
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt.
Enjoy! :
-- volkerdi@slackware.com
Module section -- this section is used to specify
which dynamically loadable modules to load.
Section Module
This loads the DBE extension module.
Load dbe Double buffer extension
This loads the miscellaneous extensions module, and disables
initialisation of the XFree86-DGA extension within that module.
SubSection extmod
Option omit xfree86-dga dont initialise the DGA extension
EndSubSection
This loads the font modules
Load type1
Load freetype
Load speedo
This loads the GLX module
Load glx
EndSection
Files section. This allows default font and rgb paths to be set
Section Files
The location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the
file minus the extension like .txt or .db. There is normally
no need to change the default.
RgbPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb
Multiple FontPath entries are allowed which are concatenated together,
as well as specifying multiple comma-separated entries in one FontPath
command or a combination of both methods
If you dont have a floating point coprocessor and emacs, Mosaic or other
programs take long to start up, try moving the Type1 and Speedo directory
to the end of this list or comment them out.
FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/
FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/
FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled
FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled
FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/
FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/
FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/
FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/
The module search path. The default path is shown here.
ModulePath /usr/X11R6/lib/modules
EndSection
Server flags section.
Section ServerFlags
Uncomment this to cause a core dump at the spot where a signal is
received. This may leave the console in an unusable state, but may
provide a better stack trace in the core dump to aid in debugging
Option NoTrapSignals
Uncomment this to disable the CrtlAltBS server abort sequence
This allows clients to receive this key event.
Option DontZap
Uncomment this to disable the CrtlAltKP+/KP- mode switching
sequences. This allows clients to receive these key events.
Option Dont Zoom
Uncomment this to disable tuning with the xvidtune client. With
it the client can still run and fetch card and monitor attributes,
but it will not be allowed to change them. If it tries it will
receive a protocol error.
Option DisableVidModeExtension
Uncomment this to enable the use of a non-local xvidtune client.
Option AllowNonLocalXvidtune
Uncomment this to disable dynamically modifying the input device
mouse and keyboard settings.
Option DisableModInDev
Uncomment this to enable the use of a non-local client to
change the keyboard or mouse settings currently only xset.
Option AllowNonLocalModInDev
EndSection
Input devices
Core keyboards InputDevice section
Section InputDevice
Identifier Keyboard1
Driver Keyboard
For most OSs the protocol can be omitted it defaults to Standard.
When using XQUEUE only for SVR3 and SVR4, but not Solaris,
uncomment the following line.
Option Protocol Xqueue
Option AutoRepeat 500 30
Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled eg, with xset1
Option Xleds 1 2 3
Option LeftAlt Meta
Option RightAlt ModeShift
To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the
lines below which are the defaults. For example, for a non-U.S.
keyboard, you will probably want to use:
Option XkbModel pc102
If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use:
Option XkbModel microsoft
Then to change the language, change the Layout setting.
For example, a german layout can be obtained with:
Option XkbLayout de
or:
Option XkbLayout de
Option XkbVariant nodeadkeys
If youd like to switch the positions of your capslock and
control keys, use:
Option XkbOptions ctrl:swapcaps
These are the default XKB settings for XFree86
Option XkbRules xfree86
Option XkbModel pc101
Option XkbLayout us
Option XkbVariant
Option XkbOptions
Option XkbDisable
Option XkbRules xfree86
Option XkbModel pc101
Option XkbLayout us
EndSection
Core Pointers InputDevice section
Section InputDevice
Identifier and driver
Identifier Mouse1
Driver mouse
The available mouse protocols types that you can set below are:
Auto BusMouse GlidePoint GlidePointPS/2 IntelliMouse IMPS/2
Logitech Microsoft MMHitTab MMSeries Mouseman MouseManPlusPS/2
MouseSystems NetMousePS/2 NetScrollPS/2 OSMouse PS/2 SysMouse
ThinkingMouse ThinkingMousePS/2 Xqueue
Option Protocol PS/2
Option Device /dev/mouse
Option Device /dev/psaux
Option Device /dev/ttyS0
Option Device /dev/ttyS1
When using XQUEUE, comment out the above two lines, and uncomment
the following line.
Option Protocol Xqueue
Baudrate and SampleRate are only for some Logitech mice. In
almost every case these lines should be omitted.
Option BaudRate 9600
Option SampleRate 150
Emulate3Buttons is an option for 2-button Microsoft mice
Emulate3Timeout is the timeout in milliseconds default is 50ms
Option Emulate3Buttons
Option Emulate3Timeout 50
ChordMiddle is an option for some 3-button Logitech mice
Option ChordMiddle
EndSection
Other input device sections
this is optional and is required only if you
are using extended input devices. This is for example only. Refer
to the XF86Config man page for a description of the options.
Section InputDevice
Identifier Mouse2
Driver mouse
Option Protocol MouseMan
Option Device /dev/mouse2
EndSection
Section InputDevice
Identifier spaceball
Driver magellan
Option Device /dev/cua0
EndSection
Section InputDevice
Identifier spaceball2
Driver spaceorb
Option Device /dev/cua0
EndSection
Section InputDevice
Identifier touchscreen0
Driver microtouch
Option Device /dev/ttyS0
Option MinX 1412
Option MaxX 15184
Option MinY 15372
Option MaxY 1230
Option ScreenNumber 0
Option ReportingMode Scaled
Option ButtonNumber 1
Option SendCoreEvents
EndSection
Section InputDevice
Identifier touchscreen1
Driver elo2300
Option Device /dev/ttyS0
Option MinX 231
Option MaxX 3868
Option MinY 3858
Option MaxY 272
Option ScreenNumber 0
Option ReportingMode Scaled
Option ButtonThreshold 17
Option ButtonNumber 1
Option SendCoreEvents
EndSection
Monitor section
Any number of monitor sections may be present
Section Monitor
Identifier My Monitor
HorizSync is in kHz unless units are specified.
HorizSync may be a comma separated list of discrete values, or a
comma separated list of ranges of values.
NOTE: THE VALUES HERE ARE EXAMPLES ONLY. REFER TO YOUR MONITORS
USER MANUAL FOR THE CORRECT NUMBERS.
HorizSync 31.5 - 50.0
HorizSync 30-64 multisync
HorizSync 31.5, 35.2 multiple fixed sync frequencies
HorizSync 15-25, 30-50 multiple ranges of sync frequencies
VertRefresh is in Hz unless units are specified.
VertRefresh may be a comma separated list of discrete values, or a
comma separated list of ranges of values.
NOTE: THE VALUES HERE ARE EXAMPLES ONLY. REFER TO YOUR MONITORS
USER MANUAL FOR THE CORRECT NUMBERS.
VertRefresh 40-90
EndSection
Graphics device section
Any number of graphics device sections may be present
Section Device
Identifier VESA Framebuffer
Driver fbdev
VideoRam 4096
Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
EndSection
Screen sections
Any number of screen sections may be present. Each describes
the configuration of a single screen. A single specific screen section
may be specified from the X server command line with the -screen
option.
Section Screen
Identifier Screen 1
Device VESA Framebuffer
Monitor My Monitor
You shouldnt need to set a default depth as the server will use
whatever the framebuffer is set to. If you insist on setting it, make
sure it matches the setting for your framebuffer.
DefaultDepth 8
Subsection Display
Depth 8
EndSubsection
Subsection Display
Depth 16
EndSubsection
Subsection Display
Depth 24
EndSubsection
Subsection Display
Depth 32
EndSubsection
EndSection
ServerLayout sections.
Any number of ServerLayout sections may be present. Each describes
the way multiple screens are organised. A specific ServerLayout
section may be specified from the X server command line with the
-layout option. In the absence of this, the first section is used.
When now ServerLayout section is present, the first Screen section
is used alone.
Section ServerLayout
The Identifier line must be present
Identifier Simple Layout
Each Screen line specifies a Screen section name, and optionally
the relative position of other screens. The four names after
primary screen name are the screens to the top, bottom, left and right
of the primary screen. In this example, screen 2 is located to the
right of screen 1.
Screen Screen 1
Each InputDevice line specifies an InputDevice section name and
optionally some options to specify the way the device is to be
used. Those options include CorePointer, CoreKeyboard and
SendCoreEvents.
InputDevice Mouse1 CorePointer
InputDevice Keyboard1 CoreKeyboard
EndSection
---snip---
This is how I got it to work.
There really isnt much more to it.
I realize this is a little conveluded, but it should get the job done.
the above X config file should get your mouse and video to work.
If your just starting out with Linux check out the Linux Documentation
Project, read the HOWTOs, theyre the best reference for setting up
Linux and getting things to work
Gossamer Axe gsmraxe@metaledge.darktech.org
http://metaledge.darktech.org
telnet://metaledge.darktech.org
I do not guarantee that this setup file will make your notebook
work This is just what I did to get mine to work, if it helps
someone great
I bought a Toshiba Satellite notebook a few months back. It was a bit of a
pain in the ass as far as the sound card went, so Im writing this for
anyone else that has one.
Specs:
Intel Celeron 900mhz processor
128 Megs of ram
16meg video shared with RAM
10 gig hard drive
DVD rom
16bit sound card
13.3 display
built in software modem forget this
Im dualbooting with windoze molasses millenium so I can use turbo pascal
7 to compile my bbs programs for both dos/linux.
Note: this machine comes with windowsxp home edition. I promptly deleted
it from the hard drive, because, it sucks It comes with quick restore
disks, so you cant even repartition the drive with fips, because of the
ntfs partition. All of the drivers for windows, you need to get on toshibas
web page and download for 9x/me because the drivers are also quick restored
You should know that you have to install Windows first, partition the first
part of the drive, install win, boot to a cd you can do this with this
laptop, and install Linux.
The installation acted like installing Linux on a PC so no real instructions
are needed here.
I have a network card pcmcia, so I enabled the pcmcia stuff to start when
I bootup. Slackware found the card and installed it as a module. Its a
netgear, so it is used as a NE2000 compatable.
In order to get my soundcard to work right, I had to grab the latest kernel
which at that time was 2.4.15-greasedturkey.
tar -zxvf linux-2.4.15.tar.gz or whatever its called
itll overwrite your other kernel, so move it first if you want to save it.
cd linux
make mrproper
make menuconfig
Code maturity level options ---
* Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers
should be enabled. Dont ask why, I just enable it always have
Loadable module support ---
* Enable loadable module support
Set version information on all module symbols
* Kernel module loader
Processor type and features ---
* Toshiba Laptop support
should be enabled, it is a toshiba laptop
X Pentium-III/CeleronCoppermine
because it is technically a PIII w/out the extra cache on it.
General setup ---
* Networking support
* PCI support
Any PCI access mode
* PCI device name database
EISA support
MCA support
* Support for hot-pluggable devices
PCMCIA/CardBus support ---
* PCMCIA/CardBus support
* CardBus support
* i82092 compatible bridge support
* i82365 compatible bridge support
Databook TCIC host bridge support
PCI Hotplug Support ---
* System V IPC
BSD Process Accounting
* Sysctl support
ELF Kernel core /proc/kcore format
* Kernel support for a.out binaries
* Kernel support for ELF binaries
* Kernel support for MISC binaries
* Power Management support
* ACPI support
ACPI Debug Statements
ACPI Bus Manager
* Advanced Power Management BIOS support
Ignore USER SUSPEND
Enable PM at boot time
Make CPU Idle calls when idle
Enable console blanking using APM
RTC stores time in GMT
Allow interrupts during APM BIOS calls
Use real mode APM BIOS call to power off
Memory Technology Devices MTD ---
do not enable the above
Parallel port support ---
* Parallel port support
* PC-style hardware
* Multi-IO cards parallel and serial
* Use FIFO/DMA if available EXPERIMENTAL
SuperIO chipset support EXPERIMENTAL
Support for PCMCIA management for PC-style ports
Support foreign hardware
IEEE 1284 transfer modes
Plug and Play configuration ---
* Plug and Play support
* ISA Plug and Play support
Block devices ---
* Normal PC floppy disk support
XT hard disk support
Parallel port IDE device support
Compaq SMART2 support
Compaq Smart Array 5xxx support
Mylex DAC960/DAC1100 PCI RAID Controller support
* Loopback device support
Network block device support
RAM disk support
Multi-device support RAID and LVM ---
Networking options ---
* Packet socket
Packet socket: mmapped IO
Kernel/User netlink socket
Network packet filtering replaces ipchains
Socket Filtering
* Unix domain sockets
* TCP/IP networking
* IP: multicasting
IP: advanced router
IP: kernel level autoconfiguration
IP: tunneling
IP: GRE tunnels over IP
IP: multicast routing
IP: TCP Explicit Congestion Notification support
IP: TCP syncookie support disabled per default
The IPv6 protocol EXPERIMENTAL
Kernel httpd acceleration EXPERIMENTAL
Asynchronous Transfer Mode ATM EXPERIMENTAL
802.1Q VLAN Support EXPERIMENTAL
The IPX protocol
Appletalk protocol support
DECnet Support
802.1d Ethernet Bridging
CCITT X.25 Packet Layer EXPERIMENTAL
LAPB Data Link Driver EXPERIMENTAL
802.2 LLC EXPERIMENTAL
Frame Diverter EXPERIMENTAL
Acorn Econet/AUN protocols EXPERIMENTAL
WAN router
Fast switching read help!
Forwarding between high speed interfaces
QoS and/or fair queueing ---
Telephony Support ---
None here
ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support ---
I left this default
SCSI support ---
Disable SCSI support, it isnt necessary unless
You have a cdburner
Fusion MPT device support ---
IEEE 1394 FireWire support EXPERIMENTAL ---
I2O device support ---
the above 3 should be disabled.
Network device support ---
* Network device support
ARCnet devices ---
* Dummy net driver support
Bonding driver support
EQL serial line load balancing support
Universal TUN/TAP device driver support
General Instruments Surfboard 1000
Ethernet 10 or 100Mbit ---
Ethernet 1000 Mbit ---
FDDI driver support
HIPPI driver support EXPERIMENTAL
PLIP parallel port support
PPP point-to-point protocol support
SLIP serial line support
Wireless LAN non-hamradio ---
Token Ring devices ---
Fibre Channel driver support
Red Creek Hardware VPN EXPERIMENTAL
Traffic Shaper EXPERIMENTAL
Wan interfaces ---
PCMCIA network device support ---
* PCMCIA network device support
3Com 3c589 PCMCIA support
3Com 3c574 PCMCIA support
Fujitsu FMV-J18x PCMCIA support
* NE2000 compatible PCMCIA support
New Media PCMCIA support
SMC 91Cxx PCMCIA support
Xircom 16-bit PCMCIA support
broken NS8390-cards support
Xircom CardBus support new driver
Xircom Tulip-like CardBus support old driver
Pcmcia Wireless LAN
This is just for me, my ethernet card I added later.
Amateur Radio support ---
IrDA infrared support ---
ISDN subsystem ---
Old CD-ROM drivers not SCSI, not IDE---
Input core support ---
Nothing for the above 5...
Character devices ---
* Virtual terminal
* Support for console on virtual terminal
* Standard/generic 8250/16550 and compatible UARTs serial support
Support for console on serial port
Support for serial ports defined by ACPI tables
Extended dumb serial driver options
Non-standard serial port support
* Unix98 PTY support
256 Maximum number of Unix98 PTYs in use 0-2048
* Parallel printer support
Support for console on line printer
Support for user-space parallel port device drivers
I2C support ---
Mice ---
Joysticks ---
QIC-02 tape support
Watchdog Cards ---
Intel i8x0 Random Number Generator support
/dev/nvram support
Enhanced Real Time Clock Support
Double Talk PC internal speech card support
Siemens R3964 line discipline
Applicom intelligent fieldbus card support
Sony Vaio Programmable I/O Control Device support
Ftape, the floppy tape device driver ---
/dev/agpgart AGP Support
Direct Rendering Manager XFree86 4.1.0 and higher DRI support
PCMCIA character devices ---
* PCMCIA serial device support
ACP Modem Mwave support
Multimedia devices ---
Nothing here
File systems ---
Quota support
Kernel automounter support
* Kernel automounter version 4 support also supports v3
Reiserfs support
ADFS file system support
Amiga FFS file system support EXPERIMENTAL
Apple Macintosh file system support EXPERIMENTAL
BFS file system support EXPERIMENTAL
Ext3 journalling file system support EXPERIMENTAL
* DOS FAT fs support
* MSDOS fs support
UMSDOS: Unix-like file system on top of standard MSDOS fs
* VFAT Windows-95 fs support
Since i have win on the first partition, I enable dos
EFS file system support read only EXPERIMENTAL
Compressed ROM file system support
* Virtual memory file system support former shm fs
Simple RAM-based file system support
* ISO 9660 CDROM file system support
* Microsoft Joliet CDROM extensions
Transparent decompression extension
Minix fs support
FreeVxFS file system support VERITAS VxFSTM compatible
NTFS file system support read only
OS/2 HPFS file system support
* /proc file system support
/dev file system support EXPERIMENTAL
* /dev/pts file system for Unix98 PTYs
QNX4 file system support read only EXPERIMENTAL
ROM file system support
* Second extended fs support
System V/Xenix/V7/Coherent file system support
* UDF file system support read only
This is for the DVD rom
Console drivers ---
Sound ---
* Trident 4DWave DX/NX, SiS 7018 or ALi 5451 PCI Audio Core
* OSS sound modules
* Yamaha FM synthesizer YM3812/OPL-3 support
USB support ---
I left all USB supported, the laptop comes with 2 usb ports
Bluetooth support ---
Kernel hacking ---
Load an Alternate Configuration File
Save Configuration to an Alternate File
thats pretty much it for the kernel. Save it:
make dep make clean make bzImage make modules make modulesinstall
copy bzImage to where ever you have your kernel and load up lilo.conf in /etc
LILO configuration file
generated by liloconfig
Start LILO global section
boot /dev/hda
message /boot/bootmessage.txt
prompt
timeout 1200
Override dangerous defaults that rewrite the partition table:
change-rules
reset
vgaask
VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x64k
vga 791
Normal VGA console
vga normal
VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x64k
vga791
VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x32k
vga790
VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x256
vga773
VESA framebuffer console @ 800x600x64k
vga788
VESA framebuffer console @ 800x600x32k
vga787
VESA framebuffer console @ 800x600x256
vga771
VESA framebuffer console @ 640x480x64k
vga785
VESA framebuffer console @ 640x480x32k
vga784
VESA framebuffer console @ 640x480x256
vga769
End LILO global section
DOS bootable partition config begins
other /dev/hda1
label DOS
table /dev/hda
DOS bootable partition config ends
Linux bootable partition config begins
image /boot/bzImage
root /dev/hda2
label Linux
read-only
Linux bootable partition config ends
This is my config, your mileage will vary I sometimes change vga 791 to vga ask when
Im testing door games, otherwise ansis come out split screen and it sucks
You can then hit enter to see a list of screen sizes like 80x24 and pick which one you want.
Run lilo a couple of times and reboot. Everything should come up roses. If you see a lot
of module errors, just edit /etc/rc.d/rc.modules and comment out the ones Slackware put in there.
It loves to load up ppp and its bretheren, so unless you have a dialup account, you can safely
comment these out.
the networking stuff is a breeze with slackware. You can run netconfig and set it up
or go into /etc/rc.d and edit rc.inet1 with your stuff. Just plug in the necessary
numbers for your IP gateway etc., and it should work. Dont forget resolv.conf in
/etc
search yourisp.com
nameserver 000.00.00.00
nameserver 000.00.00.00
Also, if you want to mount drives from other machines, and have them mount the laptops
drive, edit /etc/exports
/ 192.168.1.1rw,norootsquash
/ 192.168.1.2rw,norootsquash
to allow the 1 and 2 computers to use the drives on the laptop.
If youre gonna have your laptop hooked up to your network for long periods of time, you
might want to disable ftp, telnet etc., from inetd.conf. Just put a infront of the
lines you dont need. Its safer to disable this stuff
Heres mine. I disabled most stuff except for the necessary things.
See man 8 inetd for more information.
If you make changes to this file, either reboot your machine or send the
inetd a HUP signal:
Do a ps x as root and look up the pid of inetd. Then do a
kill -HUP pid of inetd.
The inetd will re-read this file whenever it gets that signal.
servicename socktype proto flags user serverpath args
The first 4 services are really only used for debugging purposes, so
we comment them out since they can otherwise be used for some nasty
denial-of-service attacks. If you need them, uncomment them.
echo stream tcp nowait root internal
echo dgram udp wait root internal
discard stream tcp nowait root internal
discard dgram udp wait root internal
daytime stream tcp nowait root internal
daytime dgram udp wait root internal
chargen stream tcp nowait root internal
chargen dgram udp wait root internal
time stream tcp nowait root internal
time dgram udp wait root internal
These are standard services.
Washington University FTP Daemon:
ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd wu.ftpd -l -i -a
ProFTPD FTP Daemon:
ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd proftpd
telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.telnetd
This is for BSD sendmail. NOTE: Its not a good idea to uncomment this
one, since sendmail is already set up to run as a daemon in /etc/rc.d/rc.M.
But, if you really want to run sendmail this way for some reason, youll
need to uncomment the smtp line below AND change the line in /etc/rc.d/rc.M
to run sendmail like this: /usr/sbin/sendmail -q30m
...otherwise the queue will not be processed.
smtp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd sendmail -bs
The comsat daemon notifies the user of new mail when biff is set to y:
comsat dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.comsat
Shell, login, exec and talk are BSD protocols.
shell stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.rshd -L
login stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.rlogind
exec stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.rexecd
talk dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.talkd
ntalk dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.talkd
To use the talk daemons from KDE, comment the talk and ntalk lines above
and uncomment the ones below:
talk dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /opt/kde/bin/kotalkd
ntalk dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /opt/kde/bin/ktalkd
Kerberos authenticated services
klogin stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd rlogind -k
eklogin stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd rlogind -k -x
kshell stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd rshd -k
Services run ONLY on the Kerberos server
krbupdate stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd registerd
kpasswd stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd kpasswdd
POP and IMAP mail servers:
pop2 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.pop2d
Traditional BSD-based in.pop3d:
pop3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.pop3d
GNU pop3d probably the most secure:
pop3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd gnu-pop3d
The ipop3d POP3 server is part of the Pine distribution. If youve
installed the Pine package, you may wish to switch to ipop3d by
commenting out the pop3 line above, and uncommenting the pop3 line below.
pop3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd ipop3d
imap2 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd imapd
The Internet UUCP service.
uucp stream tcp nowait uucp /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/lib/uucp/uucico -l
Tftp service is provided primarily for booting. Most sites
run this only on machines acting as boot servers.
tftp dgram udp wait nobody /usr/sbin/tcpd in.tftpd
bootps dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/bootpd bootpd
Finger, systat and netstat give out user information which may be
valuable to potential system crackers. Many sites choose to disable
some or all of these services to improve security.
Try telnet localhost systat and telnet localhost netstat to see that
information yourself!
finger stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/sbin/tcpd in.fingerd -u
systat stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/sbin/tcpd /bin/ps -auwwx
netstat stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /bin/netstat -a
Ident service is used for net authentication
Since we start identd as nobody, it cant write a .pid file in /var/run, so tell it
to use /dev/null. This is of little importance unless you run identd as a
standalone daemon anyway.
auth stream tcp wait nobody /usr/sbin/in.identd in.identd -P/dev/null
These are to start Samba, an smb server that can export filesystems to
Pathworks, Lanmanager for DOS, Windows for Workgroups, Windows95, Lanmanager
for Windows, Lanmanager for OS/2, Windows NT, etc.
If youre running smbd and nmbd from daemons in /etc/rc.d/rc.samba, then you
shouldnt uncomment these lines.
netbios-ssn stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/smbd smbd
netbios-ns dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/nmbd nmbd
Sun-RPC based services.
service name/versionsocktyperpc/protflagsuserserverargs
rstatd/1-3 dgram rpc/udp wait root /usr/sbin/tcpd rpc.rstatd
rusersd/2-3 dgram rpc/udp wait root /usr/sbin/tcpd rpc.rusersd
walld/1 dgram rpc/udp wait root /usr/sbin/tcpd rpc.rwalld
End of inetd.conf.
If you want to run services such as telnet and ftp dont uncomment these
out.
X was a pain in the ass to setup too I ran the non-graphical setup
and found that it created two config files, of which the first one wouldnt
load, so i had to rename the 2nd one The graphics card in this laptop
is a Trident, its a pain to configure, the following is my XF86Config
which is found in /etc/X11
File generated by xf86config.
Copyright c 1999 by The XFree86 Project, Inc.
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
copy of this software and associated documentation files the Software,
to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED AS IS, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL
THE XFREE86 PROJECT BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY,
WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF
OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.
Except as contained in this notice, the name of the XFree86 Project shall
not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or other
dealings in this Software without prior written authorization from the
XFree86 Project.
Refer to the XF86Config4/5 man page for details about the format of
this file.
This XF86Config file is designed for use with the Linux framebuffer console.
This generic interface should work with nearly all video cards although
not every card will support every resolution. To use the Linux framebuffer
console, you need to enable these kernel options:
Using make menuconfig, in console drivers, enable:
* VGA text console
* Video mode selection support
* Support for frame buffer devices EXPERIMENTAL
* VESA VGA graphics console
* Advanced low level driver options
* 8 bpp packed pixels support
* 16 bpp packed pixels support
* 24 bpp packed pixels support
* 32 bpp packed pixels support
* VGA characters/attributes support
* Select compiled-in fonts
* VGA 8x8 font
* VGA 8x16 font
If you have a Matrox or ATI Mach64, you might try enabling the options having
to do with those cards as well. However, if the card is VESA compliant, you
dont really need to and it might cause problems, possibly
Next, if this file is not already named /etc/X11/XF86Config, make a copy
with that name. This file ships with the name XF86Config-fbdev to avoid
overwriting an existing config file.
To get the kernel to start in VESA framebuffer mode, you need to pass it
a vga init string at boot time. For example, if you use LILO youll
probably find a vganormal string in your /etc/lilo.conf. If you edit that
to one of the values in this table:
Colours 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200
256 769 771 773 775 796
32,768 784 787 790 793 797
65,536 785 788 791 794 798
16.8M 786 789 792 795 799
...such as this for 1024x768x64k:
vga 791
and then reinstall LILO by running lilo as root, then at the next boot
Linux should start in a VESA framebuffer console mode.
For more information on how to activate the Linux frame buffer, see
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt.
Enjoy! :
-- volkerdi@slackware.com
Module section -- this section is used to specify
which dynamically loadable modules to load.
Section Module
This loads the DBE extension module.
Load dbe Double buffer extension
This loads the miscellaneous extensions module, and disables
initialisation of the XFree86-DGA extension within that module.
SubSection extmod
Option omit xfree86-dga dont initialise the DGA extension
EndSubSection
This loads the font modules
Load type1
Load freetype
Load speedo
This loads the GLX module
Load glx
EndSection
Files section. This allows default font and rgb paths to be set
Section Files
The location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the
file minus the extension like .txt or .db. There is normally
no need to change the default.
RgbPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb
Multiple FontPath entries are allowed which are concatenated together,
as well as specifying multiple comma-separated entries in one FontPath
command or a combination of both methods
If you dont have a floating point coprocessor and emacs, Mosaic or other
programs take long to start up, try moving the Type1 and Speedo directory
to the end of this list or comment them out.
FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/
FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/
FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled
FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled
FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/
FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/
FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/
FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/
The module search path. The default path is shown here.
ModulePath /usr/X11R6/lib/modules
EndSection
Server flags section.
Section ServerFlags
Uncomment this to cause a core dump at the spot where a signal is
received. This may leave the console in an unusable state, but may
provide a better stack trace in the core dump to aid in debugging
Option NoTrapSignals
Uncomment this to disable the CrtlAltBS server abort sequence
This allows clients to receive this key event.
Option DontZap
Uncomment this to disable the CrtlAltKP+/KP- mode switching
sequences. This allows clients to receive these key events.
Option Dont Zoom
Uncomment this to disable tuning with the xvidtune client. With
it the client can still run and fetch card and monitor attributes,
but it will not be allowed to change them. If it tries it will
receive a protocol error.
Option DisableVidModeExtension
Uncomment this to enable the use of a non-local xvidtune client.
Option AllowNonLocalXvidtune
Uncomment this to disable dynamically modifying the input device
mouse and keyboard settings.
Option DisableModInDev
Uncomment this to enable the use of a non-local client to
change the keyboard or mouse settings currently only xset.
Option AllowNonLocalModInDev
EndSection
Input devices
Core keyboards InputDevice section
Section InputDevice
Identifier Keyboard1
Driver Keyboard
For most OSs the protocol can be omitted it defaults to Standard.
When using XQUEUE only for SVR3 and SVR4, but not Solaris,
uncomment the following line.
Option Protocol Xqueue
Option AutoRepeat 500 30
Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled eg, with xset1
Option Xleds 1 2 3
Option LeftAlt Meta
Option RightAlt ModeShift
To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the
lines below which are the defaults. For example, for a non-U.S.
keyboard, you will probably want to use:
Option XkbModel pc102
If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use:
Option XkbModel microsoft
Then to change the language, change the Layout setting.
For example, a german layout can be obtained with:
Option XkbLayout de
or:
Option XkbLayout de
Option XkbVariant nodeadkeys
If youd like to switch the positions of your capslock and
control keys, use:
Option XkbOptions ctrl:swapcaps
These are the default XKB settings for XFree86
Option XkbRules xfree86
Option XkbModel pc101
Option XkbLayout us
Option XkbVariant
Option XkbOptions
Option XkbDisable
Option XkbRules xfree86
Option XkbModel pc101
Option XkbLayout us
EndSection
Core Pointers InputDevice section
Section InputDevice
Identifier and driver
Identifier Mouse1
Driver mouse
The available mouse protocols types that you can set below are:
Auto BusMouse GlidePoint GlidePointPS/2 IntelliMouse IMPS/2
Logitech Microsoft MMHitTab MMSeries Mouseman MouseManPlusPS/2
MouseSystems NetMousePS/2 NetScrollPS/2 OSMouse PS/2 SysMouse
ThinkingMouse ThinkingMousePS/2 Xqueue
Option Protocol PS/2
Option Device /dev/mouse
Option Device /dev/psaux
Option Device /dev/ttyS0
Option Device /dev/ttyS1
When using XQUEUE, comment out the above two lines, and uncomment
the following line.
Option Protocol Xqueue
Baudrate and SampleRate are only for some Logitech mice. In
almost every case these lines should be omitted.
Option BaudRate 9600
Option SampleRate 150
Emulate3Buttons is an option for 2-button Microsoft mice
Emulate3Timeout is the timeout in milliseconds default is 50ms
Option Emulate3Buttons
Option Emulate3Timeout 50
ChordMiddle is an option for some 3-button Logitech mice
Option ChordMiddle
EndSection
Other input device sections
this is optional and is required only if you
are using extended input devices. This is for example only. Refer
to the XF86Config man page for a description of the options.
Section InputDevice
Identifier Mouse2
Driver mouse
Option Protocol MouseMan
Option Device /dev/mouse2
EndSection
Section InputDevice
Identifier spaceball
Driver magellan
Option Device /dev/cua0
EndSection
Section InputDevice
Identifier spaceball2
Driver spaceorb
Option Device /dev/cua0
EndSection
Section InputDevice
Identifier touchscreen0
Driver microtouch
Option Device /dev/ttyS0
Option MinX 1412
Option MaxX 15184
Option MinY 15372
Option MaxY 1230
Option ScreenNumber 0
Option ReportingMode Scaled
Option ButtonNumber 1
Option SendCoreEvents
EndSection
Section InputDevice
Identifier touchscreen1
Driver elo2300
Option Device /dev/ttyS0
Option MinX 231
Option MaxX 3868
Option MinY 3858
Option MaxY 272
Option ScreenNumber 0
Option ReportingMode Scaled
Option ButtonThreshold 17
Option ButtonNumber 1
Option SendCoreEvents
EndSection
Monitor section
Any number of monitor sections may be present
Section Monitor
Identifier My Monitor
HorizSync is in kHz unless units are specified.
HorizSync may be a comma separated list of discrete values, or a
comma separated list of ranges of values.
NOTE: THE VALUES HERE ARE EXAMPLES ONLY. REFER TO YOUR MONITORS
USER MANUAL FOR THE CORRECT NUMBERS.
HorizSync 31.5 - 50.0
HorizSync 30-64 multisync
HorizSync 31.5, 35.2 multiple fixed sync frequencies
HorizSync 15-25, 30-50 multiple ranges of sync frequencies
VertRefresh is in Hz unless units are specified.
VertRefresh may be a comma separated list of discrete values, or a
comma separated list of ranges of values.
NOTE: THE VALUES HERE ARE EXAMPLES ONLY. REFER TO YOUR MONITORS
USER MANUAL FOR THE CORRECT NUMBERS.
VertRefresh 40-90
EndSection
Graphics device section
Any number of graphics device sections may be present
Section Device
Identifier VESA Framebuffer
Driver fbdev
VideoRam 4096
Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
EndSection
Screen sections
Any number of screen sections may be present. Each describes
the configuration of a single screen. A single specific screen section
may be specified from the X server command line with the -screen
option.
Section Screen
Identifier Screen 1
Device VESA Framebuffer
Monitor My Monitor
You shouldnt need to set a default depth as the server will use
whatever the framebuffer is set to. If you insist on setting it, make
sure it matches the setting for your framebuffer.
DefaultDepth 8
Subsection Display
Depth 8
EndSubsection
Subsection Display
Depth 16
EndSubsection
Subsection Display
Depth 24
EndSubsection
Subsection Display
Depth 32
EndSubsection
EndSection
ServerLayout sections.
Any number of ServerLayout sections may be present. Each describes
the way multiple screens are organised. A specific ServerLayout
section may be specified from the X server command line with the
-layout option. In the absence of this, the first section is used.
When now ServerLayout section is present, the first Screen section
is used alone.
Section ServerLayout
The Identifier line must be present
Identifier Simple Layout
Each Screen line specifies a Screen section name, and optionally
the relative position of other screens. The four names after
primary screen name are the screens to the top, bottom, left and right
of the primary screen. In this example, screen 2 is located to the
right of screen 1.
Screen Screen 1
Each InputDevice line specifies an InputDevice section name and
optionally some options to specify the way the device is to be
used. Those options include CorePointer, CoreKeyboard and
SendCoreEvents.
InputDevice Mouse1 CorePointer
InputDevice Keyboard1 CoreKeyboard
EndSection
---snip---
This is how I got it to work.
There really isnt much more to it.
I realize this is a little conveluded, but it should get the job done.
the above X config file should get your mouse and video to work.
If your just starting out with Linux check out the Linux Documentation
Project, read the HOWTOs, theyre the best reference for setting up
Linux and getting things to work
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