On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, you wrote:
> I am trying to Install Mandrake 7.0(Air) but have a problem with mouse
> autodetection.
> My PC motherboard has a PS/2 mouse port (which is disabled in the BIOS) but I
> prefer to use my Genius Serial 3 button mouse on COM port 1.
>
> When running the install program it autodetects the PS/2 port but then the
> serial mouse does not work. The Install skips over the mouse installation so
> there is no way to switch it back to serial. To Install using just the
> keyboard with TAB , SPACE and ENTER keys is very very heavy going !!!
>
> This new graphical install looks very nice, but you try to install with the
> keyboard ;(
I have the same problem, I had to go with the "recommended" install then
xf86conf afterwards to set up my mouse.
Two things make life hard in this case:
Not being able to scroll the package list during install. Is there a key
combination witch will do this? I cound't find one - if I had a
satisfactory install would still have been possible.
In KDE <alt>F3 is supposed to bring up the menus, but doesn't. Since it
booted straight into KDE I couldn't DO anything without the mouse. How can
one exit KDE back to a normal command prompt?
-Ross
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