Thanks and Q - RE: [ale] H/W Q: Fedora-C3 and Dell's USB keyboard & mouse, SATA drives

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Thu Mar 31 08:59:46 EST 2005


On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 17:49 -0500, Mills, John M. wrote:
> Mike and all who replied -
> 
> Thanks for your inputs. Mike's 'usb-controller' parameter was the ticket.
> Fedora-C3 dropped in _very_ painlessly, even transferring the usb controller
> settings from installation for the normal boot - keyboard and mouse working
> just fine, thank you.
> 
> Now I have a post-install question:
> My display is an ACER AL1913 LCD capable of 1280x1024. I configured it as
> 'Generic LCD 1280x1024 / millions of colors', but only get 800x600 display.
> What X-driver and/or settings could make better use of this display?

Since you are using FC3, use the Applications->System Settings->Display
and change your screen resolution. 
> 
> TIA.
> 
>  - Mills
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Murphy [mailto:mike at tyderia.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 10:12 AM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] H/W Q: Fedora-C3 and Dell's USB keyboard & mouse,
> SATA drives
> 
> 
> on my optiplex 280 (also SATA and USB), I had to tell the kernel to load 
> USB so I could use a usb keyboard and mouse. I added "alias 
> usb-controller usb-uhci" to the kernel params and the keyboard and mouse 
> work fine, and early enough in the boot process.
> 
> Of course, once the system was loaded, I couldn't do this. I had to add 
> the param when the installer gave me the option (but interestingly, I 
> never had trouble getting the keyboard to work when booted from the cds).
> 
> 
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