[GRLUG] Hey look! A linux topic!

[John-Thomas Richards]

On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 04:20:01PM -0500, Bob Kline wrote:
> In the spirit of try it and see, I loaded
> Knoppix V3.6 on a 10 year old ASUS
> P55T2P4 motherboard with a 166MHz
> Pentium processor, and 192MB of RAM.
> 
> Works fine.  It's fast, in the context of a
> 166 MHz CPU.  And even while the BIOS
> on the motherboard only supports an 8.4 GB
> drive, I can hang an arbitrarily large
> external drive with a USB interface on it
> and use it.

You gotta love Linux.

> Knoppix V3.6 uses a 2.4 kernel.  So far
> I've gotten no distribution using a 2.6
> kernel to produce a working mouse. That
> includes PS-2 and serial mice.  I haven't
> tried a USB mouse yet.  Otherwise,
> newer distributions do load, and I can
> use everything except the mouse by using
> line commands and screen position keys.
> 
> I don't think the motherboard and memory
> meet the minimum requirements for running
> Knoppix.........

Are you trying to use the mouse in X or on a command line?  I've never
had a problem running a mouse in X, although when 2.6.x first came out,
there was a problem with the mouse moving twice as fast, but that was
just an XFree86 config change (that was before xorg).

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