Installing K3B

[eprom]

Hello all,

I've encountered problems in installing k3b and optical mouse. My distribution is RHL 9, Could someone give me some hints on these?

When I was installing k3b the following errors happened and the installation stopped.....

checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X includes. Please check your installation and add the correct paths!

For optical mouse installation (3 buttons and wired), I'd changed the XF86 (I couldn't locate the xorg file) file as follows:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Mouse0"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
        Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
EndSection

Thanks !


Best regards


eprom

[Roxoff]

RH9 is quite old, you may want to consider a newer alternative...

That said, the reason that K3B is not building is because you've not got the X development packages installed. I dont know if the package manager (up2date) will still work for this old distro, but you might be able to get it. I'm not even sure what it's called, but it'll have 'devel' in the title somwhere - maybe you could browse your RH9 CD, or the package repository? K3B is available in binary form for the newest distros (Fedora, RedHat Enterprise and CentOS, which are all derived from that same distribution that was RH9).

For the mouse, it could be that /dev/input/mice does not exist or is not created properly. Take a look in the /dev/input directory and see what devices you have.

[Juan Pablo]

I'm not sure but I think /dev/input/mice doesn't exist on 2.4 kernels, does RH9 use a 2.4 kernel?

[eprom]

Thanks all replies!

I've checked the /dev/input/ directory and found both the "mice" and "mouse". I've been using kernel 2.4 at the moment, so, do I need to recompile the kernel to make the optical mouse work ? Hope to have some ideas on this! Many thanks!


Best regards


eprom