In a few words, my mouse has ceased to function. Here's what happened: The machine had been idle for a while, went to logout from KDE, no mouse....
Machine is an older board, AMD K6-2 500, only 64 MB SDRAM. Still functioned OK. Attempted to re0install from the CD. Mouse seemed to work OK until I reached the mouse configuration screen. Select the mouse (Generic 3-button on /dev/ttyS0) and suddenly no mouse again. Tried all the above with a different mouse, still no go (in fact I had no mouse available even from the first screen of the installer)... Hmm... Tried the first mouse on a second machine, running Win 98SE. Worked perfectly, no problem. OK, problem with the serial port or mobo, perhaps? Dragged out another mobo, this one was AMD K6-3 300, 128 MB. Guess what, no mouse.... It seems that the problem only occurs under Linux (Mandrake 9.1 with the original generic kernel), the drivers are loaded and the ports correctly detected. It is apparently not the mouse itself, nor is it the board or chipset causing this. So far, I've tried 1 trackball,and 2 different mice, as well as trying a different cable from the headers. Nothing makes the slightest difference. The machine is my secondary machine, used by my house-mate and her daughter. They need to use the mouse (they have no idea otherwise), so I need to work out the problem fairly urgently. Need more info, please ask... -- Alex Fisher OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Community Contact, Australia
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