Did you upgrade your BIOS? And try setting PNP BIOS to no PNP.
----- Original Message -----
From: "A. Rick Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 10:09 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.0 doesn't recognize PS/2 mouse
You also won't find a working install. I tried the text install and it did
exactly what I figured it would do. It still doesn't recognize the PS/2
mouse. Thus, you get the new 8.0 image, and you can't do a thing.
<sigh> There goes two days worth of work. I'm just glad I didn't try an
upgrade on a real, working server.
So for the time being, Mandrake 8.0 doesn't support, nor run on an IBM
Thinkpad, and presumably, any computer using a PS/2 mouse.
At 12:22 PM 5/9/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>On Wednesday 09 May 2001 05:44, A. Rick Anderson wrote:
> > I successfully installed several versions of 7.2, including the latest
freq
> > pack. However, the install program for 8.0 won't recognize either my
> > trackpoint, nor an attached PS/2 mouse. I've tried both.
> >
> > I am running on a IBM Thinkpad 600 with Max memory (298 MBytes I
> > believe). PS/2 Mouse support seems like a bizarre thing to break on a
new
> > OS release.
>
>
>Speaking of bizarre things, all the other distros are activating the
>lm_sensors module by default. The IBM laptop owners who try to check
battery
>power are in for a factory-return-for-new-motherboard level surprise.
>
>You will not find the lm_sensors loaded or activated by default on this
>distro.
>
>The bugfix for PS/2 keyboard without PS/2 mouse freezing the install was
>responsible for breaking this one. Since IBM has less than 5% market share
>on laptops, we don't have one readily available for testing.
>
>However, I did test an install and it worked fine, using
>
>F1 at the splash screen....
>
>Then typing "text expert" without the quotes
>
>Then proceeding with text install...
>
>Civileme
