[K12OSN] old AT keyboards and serial mouse not working

[Joe Guenther]

Denny,

The newest K12LTSP has a lts.conf file with lots of suggested monitor mode
lines in it.  I found that they work great.  I do not have a copy of my
file, as I am on my laptop ... but check out the newest default lts.conf
file.

I can post it to the list when I get home...

joe

-----Original Message-----
From: k12osn-admin at redhat.com [mailto:k12osn-admin at redhat.com]On Behalf
Of Dennis Daniels
Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 2:49 PM
To: k12osn at redhat.com
Subject: Re: [K12OSN] old AT keyboards and serial mouse not working


Hello,
I've a similar problem with older monitors... I've got a bunch of AT
cases with mmx and PIs on board, plenty fine for clients but the Xfree
server is having a bear of a time picking up these old donated
monitors... hand configing these is a real time consuming pain. As I am
the teacher and network admin for this install of LTSP every spare
moment is consumed with improving student services and teaching. Anyone
have a tip/trick for getting older monitors to work?

New monitors work without a problem.. The old monitors sit unused which
means I've fewer clients that I'd really like to put to work! I've tried
using knoppix and it too is asking for manual adjustment of scan
rates... are we looking at mountains of landfill monitors because
getting the correct scan rate is so difficult? </environmental concern>

I know that I'm not the first to face this problem, please advise!

Denny

Joe Guenther wrote:
> Help!!
>
> I am trying to demo the LTSP setup to the computer teacher and principal
> .... and of course something does not work.  I have a compaq deskpro with
> PS/2 mouse and PS/2 keyboard which works fine.
>
> Another workstation (I hve 22 of these that I wanted to convert to LTSP
> terminals) has an AT keyboard - big plug, and serial mouse.  The mouse
works
> in the BIOS setup.  The BIOS is set to a non-PnP OS.  I can "pause" the
boot
> at the beginning but then at the X-server login window both keyboard and
> mouse are non-existant.
>
> I am using LTSP 4
>
> [ws007]
> XSERVER = auto
> OR
> XSERVER = XF86_S3  (both same result...)
> X_MOUSE_PROTOCOL   = "Microsoft"
> X_MOUSE_DEVICE     = "/dev/ttyS0"
> X_MOUSE_RESOLUTION = 50
> X_MOUSE_BUTTONS    = 3
> X_MOUSE_BAUD       = 1200
>
> The rest is according to the defaults in LTSP 4.0 with latest updates.
>
> thanks for rescuing me
> joe
>
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