Regional Webmaster wrote:
> 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.
> >
I dont know about your laptop but mine has a setting in the bios to disable the
touchpad .
Jeanette
