On Sunday 25 January 2004 15:37, Steve Kaufman wrote: > Hello all, > > I just finished the install and got my mail configured. I want to > thank Anne and Raj for their assistance. > > A couple of questions: > 1- Anne had said that I should run updater to make sure that I > had all the latest fixes. During the install in went through the > step to do so but it was pretty quick so I'm not sure it worked. > How can I tell if it worked? 2. If it did not work then how do I > do it manually?
From the K menu : Configuration-->Packaging-->Mandrake Update. Beware, there is a bug : When finished updating, your menus may be screwed up. To remedy this, open a terminal, become root (type su and give your root password) and type : "update-menus -v" (without the "" of course. Possibly the screen won't return to the command prompt. Ignore this, just press enter and then "exit" twice. > 3. I have a microsoft intellipoint trackball mouse which has a > wheel in it. During install I chose a mouse that had a wheel and > it seemed to work on the test screen but now that I am up and > running the wheel doesn't work and the trackball is very hard to > control. Any help would be appreciated. I read something about > IMWHEEL but could not make heads or tails of how to > get/install/and make it work. Don't even know if I should do it > or if there is some other way to fix it. Please remember I am > very new to this and will need details please. > > TIA > Steve This is a minor issue. Find "mousedrake" somewhere in your menus and give it a go. Or, buy an ordinary PS/2 wheelmouse (about $ 10). HTH Kaj Haulrich. -- ** Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer **
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