[scottish] Laptop Setup Problems

[Stu Brady]

Newbie Alert!   I have been trying to get a stable Linux setup onto my laptop for a while now.  I have an Acer Travelmate 202T.  I have tried RedHat7(7.0) and OpenLinux2.4 - both came with one of those monster books.  I also downloaded Peanut9.2 from the internet.  Peanut seemed to be the best - at least it more or less set up the sound card from the word go.   The problem (and it seems to happen more regularly with Peanut than RedHat is that when I start KDE the mouse goes a bit loopy.  Usually it keeps jumping back to one of the corners -top right or bottom left.  This does not happen all the time but often enough to make me want to chuck it.  When it works - it WORKS! :)   Any suggestions much appreciated.   Stu