[LUG] RE: Mandrake 8.1 Mouse

["Matthew Browning" <M.Browning@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

| "Quanta plus" looks like the kind of HTML editing tool I could
| come to love, if I'm ever mad enough to try writing substantial
| amounts of HTML (unlikely).
| 

Reserves comment.

...Oh, go on then - ``vi is the *only* html editing tool''


| The device files look okay for the mouse - I've run 'gpm' and
| 'mev' against the relevant com port and nothing - zilch - just a
| dead mouse.
| 
| mouseconfig runs but nothing happens when I try and test it.
| 
| Any idea what I might have done? Sure it is simple, but it is
| eluding me today.


Ah! I have had exactly this problem a couple of times under RedHats 6
through 7 respectively.  What is really annoying is that one .release
will be fine while another is inexplicably not.  The problem is often
discussed in USENETland and seems to be isolated to RH-based distros.
If you want Mandrake 8.2 download I have a copy lying around here, let
me know.  Here, however, is your holy grail:

Shut down the machine entirely and wait a few seconds.  Start her up
again _holding_down_ the left hand mouse button for the duration of the
boot procedure.  Run mouseconfig now - amazing. (it will work with the
--kickstart option if you are a lazybones)

I can remember someone explaining why this works on comp.os.linux.redhat
about a year ago but have forgotten - sorry about that.

I eventually got fed up with that solution, however and went to Dixons
and bought the most bog-standard looking PS2 mouse I could find; no
problems since.

HTH. MB

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