Linux (was Re: [SPARCbook] Sparcbook 3 mouse)

Jaakko Niemi liiwi at lonesom.pp.fi
Mon Aug 23 12:06:36 CDT 1999


On Sun, Aug 22, 1999 at 02:41:15PM -0400, Derrick J Brashear wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Derrick J Brashear wrote:
> 
> > >  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.
> 
> Still muddling along on this, I haven't quite figured out how the
> drivers/video sbus stuff is supposed to behave, so I'm not sure what I'm
> supposed to be doing; There's a totally wrong in terms of the mmap stuff
> driver in the 2.3 CVS tree on vger now though.
> 
> Also, a mouse patch has been integrated into the CVS tree, different than
> that I posted, such that no gpm patch is required.

 Humm ho. The patch you posted earlier seem to go into 2.2.11 clenly. 
 Just patched it in.. seem to even compile too. 
 
 The 2.3 cvs tree did not compile last night, when I last tried. 
 Cannot wait untill it does.






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