Hardware Titbits III

Summary:

• Logitech cordless wheel-mouse (4 buttons)
• Printing On A HP Deskjet 600C
• Intel IStation 56k
• Diamond Stealth 64 VRAM

'Hardware Titbits' collects instructions on how to set up hardware devices which haven't been detected or configured by Mandrake Linux.
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Logitech cordless wheel-mouse (4 buttons)

(Contributed by Jonathon Trelfa, edited)

"When I went through the install, it detected the mouse as a generic ps/2 mouse. When I tried to tell it that I had a logitech mouse, it didn't function at all. It made the cursor jump all over the place and act erratic. So, I had to setup X initially as a generic ps/2 mouse and alter the XF86Config on my own.

On a subsequent install, I tried telling it that I had a Microsoft Intellimouse. It wasn't erratic, but instead of allowing me to use the wheel as a button, it enabled the "emulate 3 buttons" portion of the config along with the ZAxismapping 4 5 (which doesn't seem to work right), so I still had to manually configure the XF86Config (by disabling the 'emulate 3 buttons' and adding the 'buttons 3' line) to make all of the buttons work.

Also, for some reason, the XF86Config setup sets up the device as /dev/mouse instead of /dev/psaux. I dunno if that really makes a difference, but I changed it to dev/psaux anyway.

'/etc/X11/XF86Config' "pointers" section:

Device "/dev/psaux"<br> Protocol "~MouseManPlusPS/2"

"IMPS/2"<br> Buttons 6<br> ZAxisMapping 5 6

This makes the wheel act as buttons 5 and 6 and the thumb button as button 4. You can then change button assignments after X has started by using

xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 6 3 2 4 5"

which will basically change the button assignments. That particular statement will make the thumb button act as button 2, the scrolling wheel will be 4 and 5 and clicking on the wheel button will act as button 6.

Its something that can be played with. I am still trying to figure out a way to make the thumb button act as a "double click"."

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Printing On A HP Deskjet 600C

(contributed by Robin Miyagi)

I have found that using the attached file: '/var/spool/lpd/lp/postscript.cfg' works well for the HP Deskjet 600C for monochrome printing. For color printing, change

COLOR=-dBitsPerPixel=8

COLOR=-dBitsPerPixel=24

#<br> ~# configuration related to postscript printing<br> ~# generated automatically by PRINTTOOL<br> ~# manual changes to this file may be lost<br> ~#<br> GSDEVICE=cdj500<br> RESOLUTION=300x300<br> COLOR=-dBitsPerPixel=8<br> PAPERSIZE=letter<br> EXTRA_GS_OPTIONS="-dDepletion=2"<br> REVERSE_ORDER=<br> PS_SEND_EOF=NO<br> <br> ~#<br> ~# following is related to printing multiple pages per output page<br> ~#<br> NUP=1<br> RTLFTMAR=18<br> TOPBOTMAR=18

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Intel IStation 56k

(Contributed by Nathaniel, edited)

"I got it to work. The trick is KISS...keep it simple1.1 In 'Linuxconf', under 'basic host information', just enter the type of NIC (

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Diamond Stealth 64 VRAM

(Contributed by Robert Brooks, edited)

"The old card in this machine is a Diamond Stealth 64 VRAM. First, any setting above 8 bits per pixel fails with a "can't have more than 256 colors with a normal RAMDAC".
OK, fine. But the test only displayed a cursor, not even the gray X background. To make a long story short, somehow the distribution omits the ramdac info for this card.
After adding Ramdac = "bt485" right after the clockchip line in /etc/X11/XF86Config, all was well.

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Related Resources:

Linux IR HOWTO

The Linux Printing HOWTO

Modified: Sept. 25, 2000
Author: Tom Berger

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