Hi,
I (Mandrake) was able to install my ps2 mouse, with wheel support during
a regular installation of LM 8 on my desktop machine. It took a great deal
of time for the install prog to 'sense' and configure the mouse. Actually
around 2 minutes of continual, gentle movement of the mouse, including the
wheel. Then all of a sudden, up pops the three button test screen and all is
well. Patience seems to be the key here. BTW, this ps2 configuration lag was
the same in LM 7.2. gently.....gently.....
For those who check email headers, I use windows at work (won't let me
wipe it out and run linux) but I'm working on it.
Regards to all listites,
Bill W.
----- 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
>
>
