In what you are citing, hardware switches and conflicts are to blame.
Barring this LM8.x does a good job detecting the PSAUX port, though not
always the mouse.

He has nothing like these conflicts AFAIK, (we have been at it for some
time now...).

-JMS

|-----Original Message-----
|From: Bill Kenworthy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
|Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 9:00 AM
|To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|Subject: RE: [expert] Mandrake-Linux 8.1 installation problem
|
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|Actually it quite often does fail.  I installed with a serial 
|mouse and then changed to a usb mouse when the system went 
|into use.  It was a couple of frustrated reboots before the 
|hardware realised that the serial mouse had gone and removed 
|it and then on the next boot it found the usb mouse.  Could 
|run harddrake/kudzu any number of times manually and it would 
|find the usb mouse, but not do anything about it.  Another 
|possibility is changing a serial mouse for a modem on the same 
|comport - the hardware detection does not realise the device 
|has changed, so status quo.  It would be handy if the hardware 
|detection allowed you to manually tell it something had 
|changed, but this does not seem to be available.  Laptops are 
|another whole can of worms when changing location/hardware 
|configuration.


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