I have a question that stems from the serial mouse part of this email.

I have Mandrake 8.2, and a machine that only has a serial port on the back
of it (I have the option of installing a ps/2 port if all else fails) for
the mouse. I don't have a serial mouse, but I have an adapter for a serial 2
PS/2 connector. No matter what setting I've tried during install, I can't
get the mouse to work using that adapter. Do those adapters just not work
very well? Even windows wasn't getting it... I've tried 3 different adapters
and none of them work, (I've also tried 3 different computers) What am I
doing wrong?

The serial port is connected to COM1 (TTYS0 right?) on the motherboard.

John Wheat, this is the computer you sold me, can you give me some hints? I
can't for the life of me figure out half of the keyboard shortcuts to get
into the hardware section of Mandrake to be able to change it after install.
I'll probably have to go through the install again, or edit a config file
somewhere maybe.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Gore" <agore@qwest.net>
To: "PLUG" <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2002 11:39 AM
Subject: SuSE installed


| Folks,
|
| Thanks much for the recommendations on a Linux distro to bring my
| dual-processor Intel system "up from Windows". I have always suspected
that
| Windows NT was not making full use of the two processors.
|
| I ended up installing SuSE 8.0, if for no other reason that stores carry
it
| all over town, next to Red Hat, while nobody has Debian. There must be a
| reason why the market is demanding it. The Pro edition comes with six
discs
| of applications. The last time I installed a Linux was Red Hat 6.1 several
| years ago on an old 486. I ran that machine purely as a firewall in my
| three-PC office. It served me well, but was destroyed in a flood last
year.
| Only now am I dedicating a new machine to Linux once again.
|
| SuSE installed with far less trouble than the old RH had done. The
interface
| looked as professional as a Windows install. The autoprobe found every
| component on my system except for the serial mouse. Midway through the
| install, there was a point where SuSE displays the autoprobe results and
| allowed me to specify the mouse as being on the first serial port (using
| keyboard only, of course). It set up X as the default interface, and had
no
| trouble configuring the AGP video. X looks really good now; this time, I'm
| not going to automatically ditch it in favor of the command line.
|
| Alan Gore
|
|
|
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