ALUG met on Sunday 14th July at the North Lynn Discovery Centre in King's Lynn. Attendees included John Woodard, Jen Hopkins, johnboy(!?), Keith Watson, Dave Griffiths, Dennis Dryden, MJ Ray, Brett Parker, James Taylor & Karen Maltby.
Kit Debugging --------------------- USB mice - can anyone help get a wireless Logitech iTouch black mouse working?
Alug promo - what should we do different? --------------------- * Announce meetings to local papers * List more in linux mags * More themed meetings * Future meetings: - Bbq@Syleham - Edu or dev?@Elmswell: ask Rob - Install@uea: ask James or David * New venue? Watch this space
Printing info ---------------------
* MJR gave a short talk off the top of his head: details to be added to the web site contrib area.
Ipaq speech synth demo ---------------------
* Thanks to Jen for bringing the ipaq, and Dennis for use of his laptop
Adjourned to a local(ish) beer garden for drink and chat =========================
Hi Mark
Get involved with someone like Best Event who organise various computer fairs. They do offer free space to clubs at some of their events. See http://www.bestevent.co.uk if you're not familiar with the outfit.
Regards, Paul.
On Thursday 18 Jul 2002 7:41 pm, MJ Ray wrote:
Alug promo - what should we do different?
Paul paul.corner@tesco.net wrote:
Get involved with someone like Best Event who organise various computer fairs. They do offer free space to clubs at some of their events. See http://www.bestevent.co.uk if you're not familiar with the outfit.
Indeed they do. I've done an ALUG stand at one of their events in King's Lynn, but I can't do them all and I've not really had time to finish making contact properly. Can someone get in touch with them please? Preferably someone who can do a stand at another venue. I'm happy to help with King's Lynn stands again.
Hi Mark
I would be able to assist with any Norwich based events.
Regards, Paul.
On Thursday 18 Jul 2002 11:56 pm, MJ Ray wrote:
Indeed they do. I've done an ALUG stand at one of their events in King's Lynn, but I can't do them all and I've not really had time to finish making contact properly. Can someone get in touch with them please? Preferably someone who can do a stand at another venue. I'm happy to help with King's Lynn stands again.
On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 06:41:34PM +0000, MJ Ray wrote:
Kit Debugging
USB mice - can anyone help get a wireless Logitech iTouch black mouse working?
under kernel 2.4 yeah, its not to difficult if you like doing things to the kernel (read you have to build a new kernel, unless these things are already modules in your distro) :) ok in the kernel you will need to have...
Input Core Support
<*> Input core support < > Keyboard support <*> Mouse support (1024) Horizontal screen resolution (768) Vertical screen resolution < > Joystick support <*> Event interface support
And under USB support whichever Host controller you use/need and
--- USB Human Interface Devices (HID) <*> USB Human Interface Device (full HID) support [*] HID input layer support
although you could just include the minimal support for mice and keyboards here but its not really worth it so i don't bother.
Ok, build your kernel etc. etc. reboot etc. etc.
you may now have to mkdir /dev/input and then do "mknod /dev/input/mice c 13 63" if the device /dev/input/mice is not there it should look like this if it is
dylan:~# ls -l /dev/input/mice crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 63 Mar 14 21:54 /dev/input/mice
I don't know how to get gpm working but i never use mouse in console should be trivial though.... Anyhow to make X work change the relevant part of your XF86Config-4 to have:
Section "InputDevice"
# Identifier and driver
Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "Buttons" "5"
right that should be all you need to do, hopefully one working USB mouse, BTW this works for my Logitech iFeel Mouseman YMMV. If you want more details then please ask, this was adams quick and dirty guide to USB mice under linux, I hope you enjoyed the show, thankyou very much and goodnight.....
# exit stage left accompanied by rapturous applause (well hopefully not rotten fruit anyhow)
Adam
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