I did not find a way of disableing the mouse autoprobe during install.. One
option that i came across was to copy the cd to hard drive and replace the
mouseconfig 3.9 with the redhat mouseconfig file,(which apparantly didn't
freeze). It seemed a long way around for me, so i pulled my laptop apart
and physically disconnected the mouse, installed linux with no problems on
mouseprobe. selected the standard os2 mouse as an install option and then
reconnected everything.. worked fine.. the Xconfigurator took me some time
to get right. basicly i just played with Xconfigurator in a v-console till i
got it right.. Initally had to settle for 640 x 480 but fiddling is the way
to do it. Sorry i cannot be of more help, but i am very new to linux. Good
luck.....
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>From: Ryan Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [newbie] Mouse Freezes Install process on 6.1
>Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 6:42 AM
>
> Francisco Alonso wrote:
>
>> Ryan Baxter wrote:
>> >
>> > When trying to install my machine freezes after the probing of the
>> > mouse.
>> > It says that is has found a PS/2 compatible mouse and then the keyboard
>> > freezes completely. Any advice or suggestions are greatly appreciated.
>> > Thanks.
>> >
>> > ryan
>>
>> Do you have a laptop with one of this new pointer devices that you
>> control moving the finger across a strange surface?
>>
>> I have had the same problem just this morning. At the shop they said me
>> that is a problem with this specific kind of device (sorry). I have
>> changed to a Fujitsu with just a single buttom that works as a joystick.
>> It works fine but my problem now is to configure the TFT monitor in
>> XFree86Setup.
>>
>> Any idea?
>> ***I have a regular desktop computer. 200 mhz and 32 meg or ram. I have
>> encountered this problem with other linux help sites. Nothing however,
>> that gives a fix yet. Apparently to avoid the probing of the mouse or any
>> other device you can specify this at the boot prompt. boot: linux
>> hdb=noprobe hdc=cdrom This was the example on the Red Hat site. I will
>> try this and substitue mouse for cdrom and see if I can get anywhere.
>
