Mouse issues

Forum: HD Install
Topic: Mouse issues
started by: MrBear37

Posted by MrBear37 on May 31 2006,13:14

Greetings all !

OK.. I have been a DSL user and Linux User for quite some time. so I am not a noob in most areas.

Here is the issue. I have a desktop- IBM PL 300- I tried many different ways from the installation script.. to using mouseconf script to configure the mouse on this computer.
tried all the different com ports ( even if I knew they were not right out of sheer frustration).

Now.. here is something that is interesting. due to the fact that I couldnt get the mouse to work in DSL.. I installed mandriva 2005 LE.. the mouse worked there but the sound did not !!!

In the process of diagnosing THAT issue.. I learned something about the configuration of this PC. First is that it has ( YUK!) a WIndows Sound System achitecture. This also came in 2 versions.. one SB16 bit version.. and the other a Crystal sound version. I found mine was the Crystal sound version and was then able to find some IRQ settings .. but alas no joy.. Digging into some far reaches where a bunch of people were saying.. install another sound card.. I found one person who gave me the answer I needed .... because of the BIOS settings.. there were conflicts.. sooo I had to disable the Plug-N-Pray BIOS setting.. and also the ACPI was set to disable. In this way I was able to remove what ever conflicts were there and was able to get sound..

NOW... I did all that explaining just to find out if anyone else may have had this issue AND.. possibly if that had removed any issues for others during their install/usage of DSL ?

Thanks in advance.. and sorry for the long missive..

Peace,

Mark

Posted by jls legalize on May 31 2006,14:04

indtead of mouseconfig try xsetup.sh

Posted by MrBear37 on May 31 2006,17:05

Yes... I did try that.. and still had issues with all the different configurations of p/s-2 COM# combinations.. it was quite frustrating..

Thanks for trying .. since I disabled the PnP Bios.. I am going to go home this afternoon and try it again.. see if things have changed after making those bios changes and will report back afterward..

Mark

Posted by MrBear37 on June 01 2006,12:19

I am happy to report that last night I did a new install of DSL on my puter.. and now that the Plug-N-Pray Bios is disabled. the mouse works flawlessly !

Anter great learning experience... Hope this helps someone else..

Mark

Posted by flashback on July 01 2006,04:11

my problem is very strange?! the mouse works just fine if i logged in as a user but when i login as root it freezes.
I tried to see what might be causing this with what is posted above but nothing helped .any idea besides what is mentioned above on how to fix this problem.
Thanks

Posted by cbagger01 on July 02 2006,15:47

While logging in as "root", press CTL-ALT-BACKSPACE to get back to text mode.

Then type:

mv /root/.xserverrc /root/.xserverrc.old
cp /home/dsl/.xserverrc /root/.xserverrc

Then type:

startx

Posted by flashback on July 03 2006,15:15

Thanks big guy