All I have a PS/2 mouse on my Sony, desktop and I use
/dev/psaux. Have you tried that?
--- "A. Rick Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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
>
>
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