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From: Leonardo T. de Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2000 5:46 AM
Subject: [expert] Serial Mouse
>
>
> Hello.
> I'm having SEVERE troubles on getting my serial mouse
> working under Mandrake 7.0
> I have a set of 12 PC's (With SiS motherboards 8o<)
> using Mandrake 6.1 on my network. With 2 of them the install
> couldn't get the serial mouse. They detect a PS/2 port (which
> is off) and my pointer don't move. So I give it up...
I have an ASUS SP97V with an SiS chipset. Mandrake 7.0 didn't like my PS/2
mouse, so I had to use a serial mouse for the install (planning to switch
back after the install) and then, for some reason, Mandrake started the usb
mouse service instead of gpm (the pointer didn't move).
I had trouble with this board and BeOS not liking the serial mouse, so it
may be a peculiarity of the chipset.
So, running mouseconfig and making gpm start solved my problem.
Hoyt
