[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 --