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Ok...I got it to boot the cd. I tried the XF86Config-4 file from when I boot knoppix within VMware. It actually took me to the Gnome boot screen. Now the problem is that the mouse on my laptop won't move, but the mouse was working when I was using Knoppix.
Last edited by moneyshotz; 07-08-2003 at 03:13 PM.
I don't know why you would be having mouse problems. Have you checked the XF86Config-4 that you backed up and tried to modify your current XF86Config-4 file to match your old XF86Config-4 files mouse settings?
yeah...let me double check it tho...right now this is the XF86Config-4 file I got from knoppix...before I used the knoppix file the mouse has never worked. So I'm not sure how to do it.
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "XFree86 Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "PS/2 Mouse" "CorePointer"
# Serial Mouse not detected
# USB Mouse not detected
EndSection
Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
# sw_cursor is needed for some ati and radeon cards
#Option "sw_cursor"
#Option "hw_cursor"
#Option "NoAccel"
#Option "ShowCache"
#Option "ShadowFB"
#Option "UseFBDev"
#Option "Rotate"
Identifier "Card0"
# The following line is auto-generated by KNOPPIX mkxf86config
Driver "vmware"
VendorName "All"
BoardName "All"
BusID "PCI:0:15:0"
EndSection
Ok. the mouse works now....
now for the main reason I wanted to be able to do this. Bridge my wireless network to this linux.
How do I begin to configure this? I selected that option when I first set up the virtual comp
Originally posted by moneyshotz One last question. How would I do it so that I'd be able to choose between two differenct XF86Config-4 before linux loads? Is that possible?
I'm glad that you've gotten most of it working... I have no idea how to change the XF86Config-4 files on boot. Why do you want to do that?
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