[UCLA-LUG] FW: Help
Kwan, Michelle
mkwan@oac.ucla.edu
Tue, 8 Feb 2000 15:29:23 -0800
If you already get this email, please disregard this one. Hope that I will
hear any suggestions from our group soon.
-- Michelle --
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kwan, Michelle
> Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2000 3:02 PM
> To: 'linux@linux.ucla.edu'
> Subject: Help
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a Diamond Viper V770 video card, a Sony 210GS monitor, and an
> IntelliMouse. I try to do the configuration for the Xwindow using
> xf86config. After I type in startx, the window appears too big (look like
> 300x400 or so), and the mouse jumps all over the screen (I have NT on this
> machine, too and the mouse works fine with NT). Therefore, I shutdown the
> XServer. I saw the following error message:
>
> /dev/mouse unable to get status of mouse fd (Inappropriate ioctl
> device)
>
> PID could not get read
>
> My questions are:
>
> 1/ What does the error about the mouse mean? How can I fix the
> problem?
>
> 2/ How can I make the screen appear like 800x600 in windows NT? (I
> did specify in the XF86Config file. Since the screen looks so big, does
> that mean that I didn't have the right driver for the video card? If so,
> where can I download the driver for it?)
>
> Any suggestion will be greatly appreciated.
>
> -- Michelle Kwan --