Re: what is wrong with kernel 2.3.x

Re: what is wrong with kernel 2.3.x

[Derek Homeier]

On Wed, 5 Apr 2000 18:22:05 -0400 (EDT), Scott Knight
<scott@re-104-1.read.indiana.edu> wrote:
>
> 	First off, right now Im using 2.3.51 but I saw the saem problems
> with 2.3.99-pre3 from the linuxcare rsync. ON the console when using the
> mouse to select stuff it inverts all the chareacteer sto weird thigns
> rather than hilighting them. Als with sound. on my 8500 for some reason
> the mixer for the microphone controls the rca input volume rather than the
> rca input volume controlling what it should. I havent been able to get the
> stable 2.2.x version from linuxcare to boot for some reason. All quite odd
> and agrravating. Im on a powerpc 8500 upgraded to g3/300 with 160MB memoy
> and 4MB vram with 2 2gig drives inside of it. Any and all insite would be
> greatly apprecaited.
>
Anything new on that topic? I'm seeing the same inverted characters on my
lombard under 2.3.99pre3, and pasting the stuff would only yield garbage.

I've also troubles with usb, but this might be largely because I'm not familiar
with the new designations. Do I need all of

CONFIG_USB_HID=y

CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV=y

for the mouse to work? I have compiled the first, and built the second as
module, I think, but any access to /dev/usbmouse (which is a link to
/dev/hid_something) gives an "unknown device" error.

A final woe: the kernel doesn't seem to know about the lower "Enter" key,
right of the spacebar, which is keycode 52 in 2.2.x. I used to define this as
right mousebutton, but in 2.3.99 it simply does nothing. showkey reports
a "button-press 0", but no button-release (sorry about the syntax, I hope
you know what I'm refering to). With the fn key pressed, it is properly
detected (keycode 72, iirc).
I've tried to find the keyboard definitions in the sources but couldn't
find anything I'd understand.

Any help is welcome, since the kernel seems to be very stable in general,
and dma is a _lot_ faster (at least for the CDROM) than in 2.2.15, but
with neither trackpad nor mouse working properly I find its use a bit
restricted ;^)

TIA,
							Derek


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Re: what is wrong with kernel 2.3.x

[Logan Hall]

Derek Homeier wrote:
>
> On Wed, 5 Apr 2000 18:22:05 -0400 (EDT), Scott Knight
> <scott@re-104-1.read.indiana.edu> wrote:
> >
> >       First off, right now Im using 2.3.51 but I saw the saem problems
> > with 2.3.99-pre3 from the linuxcare rsync. ON the console when using the
> > mouse to select stuff it inverts all the chareacteer sto weird thigns
> > rather than hilighting them. Als with sound. on my 8500 for some reason
> > the mixer for the microphone controls the rca input volume rather than the
> > rca input volume controlling what it should. I havent been able to get the
> > stable 2.2.x version from linuxcare to boot for some reason. All quite odd
> > and agrravating. Im on a powerpc 8500 upgraded to g3/300 with 160MB memoy
> > and 4MB vram with 2 2gig drives inside of it. Any and all insite would be
> > greatly apprecaited.
> >

I am seeing this too.  I just got 2.3.99-pre3 running on my G3 biege
tower (figgured out i had to include the powerbook adb stuff to
compile).  But on console when you use the mouse you get the garbage
characters.  Also with sound, the sound now comes out my internal
speaker rather than the speakers on my av monitor.  I have tried using
aumix but it gives the error:

MIXER_READ: Invalid argument

so i can't remix the sound to have it come out the monitors speekers.
Another odity i see is that the kernel seems to bring up my ethernet
interface (builtin) but the link light on the hub never lights up.  My
room mate isn't home and his computer isn't on so i cant see if the
ethernet works but i doubt it sence the light isn't on.  but the kernel
seems to th ink it works.  any ideas?


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