Gentoo Archives: gentoo-ppc-user

From: Joe McMahon <mcmahon@×××××××××××.edu>
To: Marcio Luis Teixeira <marciot@×××××××××××××××.edu>
Cc: gentooppc-user@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentooppc-user] Gentoo-ppc Newbie Questions
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 12:28:36
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.44.0210071326040.2970-100000@tribal.metalab.unc.edu
In Reply to: [gentooppc-user] Gentoo-ppc Newbie Questions by Marcio Luis Teixeira
1 On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Marcio Luis Teixeira wrote:
2 >
3 > I've recently successfully got Gentoo PPC running on my old PowerBook 3400c.
4 Wow. Congratulations!
5
6 > 1) The docs for the PPC Install say that to enable mouse button emulation you
7 > must enter into /etc/conf.d/local.start the following lines:
8 >
9 > echo "1" > /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/mouse_button_emulation
10 > echo "87" > /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/mouse_button2_keycode
11 > echo "88" > /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/mouse_button2_keycode
12 >
13 > That wasn't working for me, so I changed the third line to
14 > "mouse_button3_keycode". Seems to work now, so I'm thinking that this may be
15 > a bug in the docs. Is it?
16 Defnitely. I'm just another Gentoo user, but this is correct.
17
18 > ---------------------------
19 >
20 > 4) Once I do "kdm" to start the window manager, I am able to log in correctly.
21 > But, once I log out, the mouse stops working and freezes. I have to hit
22 > "Alt-E" to restart the X server before logging in again.
23 I've gotten the best "login experience" with gdm. xdm and kdm both act
24 weird.
25
26 --- Joe M.