It's a DELL mouse... Maybe that's my problem. My main mouse on my machine is a Logitech 3 button. I'll try it and see if it works. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Katherman" To: Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 11:02 AM Subject: Re: SuSE installed | Those adaptors don't always work with some mice. If you are using a | logitech mouse, you need the adaptor that came with it, or at least a | logitech adaptor. I know that in the past I have had the exact same | problem with some of my mice in both Linux and Windows. | | On Mon, 2002-05-06 at 09:59, Jeff wrote: | > 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" | > To: "PLUG" | > 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 | > | | > | | > | | > | ________________________________________________ | > | See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't | > post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. | > | | > | PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us | > | http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss | > | > ________________________________________________ | > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. | > | > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us | > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss | | | ________________________________________________ | See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. | | PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us | http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss