[SPARCbook] Sparcbook 3 mouse

Derrick J Brashear shadow at dementia.org
Wed Aug 18 14:36:17 CDT 1999


On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Jaakko Niemi wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 12:26:21AM -0400, Derrick J Brashear wrote:
> > Doh. What I meant to mention, but sent too soon: this is for a linux 2.3
> > kernel, and the gpm with RedHat 6.0. 
> 
>  Cool. 2.3.13 and .14-pre1 do not compile on sparc atm though :(

They aren't yet cleaned up for sparc32. I'm still using 2.3.5 because of
this.

>  Anyone taken any look at the framebuffer drivers (or X) on Linux yet?
>  I'd be even happy to get white text on black background :)

I'm working on it as of last night.

>  Also the power management + APM will need a lot of work. My machine gets
>  so hot in an hour that I don't dare to keep it on even. 

power management, yes, APM, no. APM is a pc specific thing, and not
applicable to these machines.

-D








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