[UCLA-LUG] Help

[Kwan, Michelle]

This is my first "old" email before I subscribed to the group. I got lots of
reply about this email already. They are very helpful suggestion, and so far
it fixed my mouse problem. I didn't have time to try to download the new
XF86Configure yet, so I still have problem with the display. It's very big
like 300X400. I'll work on it again today, and keep our group posted.

Again, thanks for all your replies.

-- Michelle --

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Kwan, Michelle 
> Sent:	Tuesday, February 08, 2000 3:02 PM
> To:	'linux@linux.ucla.edu'
> Subject:	[UCLA-LUG] 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 --
> 
> 
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