Hi everyone,
I am a total newbie, so, please, don't kill me for questions which might
seem so easy. Thanx in advance. :-)
I just installed Mandrake 7.0 and wanted to find my way round in KDE as I
discovered that the mouse cursor is sometimes jumping around the screen
and behaving as if I were pressing buttons, which I am not. So I tried to
configure some other driver. I looked into DrakConf where I started
Hardware Configuration (Lothar) but it only gave me info about the mouse,
not letting me change anything. Therefore I clicked the 'K', settings,
input devices, mouse, but I only can change the sensitivity (and switch
left/right) there. Desperately I went into RpmDrake to look for some
package which might help me. Under System Environment, Base, I found the
package mouseconfig and I tried to install it. A message showed up asking
me to insert the CD named installation. It was there, so I clicked OK, but
it said it can't find the file and is exiting. (BTW: Funny that after the
error message the mouseconfig package disappeared from the list and I had
to quit and restart RpmDrake to see it.) I clicked onto the terminal
emulation icon and started midnight commander from there (I know there's
gotta be a better way) to look at the /etc/mtab and /etc/fstab files. I
saw that the CD-ROM was configured for rw access, so I went to LinuxConf,
filesystems, access local drive, clicked onto /mnt/cdrom. Tried to
unmount and mount it back again several times (maybe shouldn't have done
that), changed the type from supermount to iso9660 and back, changed misc,
other options from fs=iso9660 to empty and back and still nothing. I can't
access the CD-ROM drive under /etc/cdrom. To make things more interesting,
another problem came up - now instead of trying to access the CD-ROM when
accessing /etc/cdrom my floppy drive is being accessed...
Can anyone please help ?
Summary:
1. How can I change the mouse driver ?
1a. What mouse driver should I select if I have a WinMouse 4D+ mouse
(model WWW-11) - it has four buttons and two wheels ? I currently have
Generic Mouse (PS/2) selected - doesn't work properly.
2. What have I done wrong that when trying to access my CD-ROM
(PlexWriter 8/4/32A) my floppy drive gets accessed ?
My /etc/fstab looks like this:
/dev/hda1 /boot vfat user,exec,conv=auto 0 0
/dev/hda5 /mnt/DOS_hda5 vfat user,exec,conv=auto 0 0
/dev/hda6 / ext2 defaults 1 1
/dev/hda7 swap swap defaults 0 0
/mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount exec,dev,suid,rw,fs=iso9660 0 0
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/etc/mtab looks like this:
/dev/hda6 / ext2 rw 0 0
none /proc proc rw 0 0
/dev/hda1 /boot vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,conv=auto 0 0
/dev/hda5 /mnt/DOS_hda5 vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,conv=auto 0 0
/mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount rw,fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts rw,mode0620 0 0
/mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount rw,fs=iso9660 0 0
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2a. What to do for my CD-ROM to work ? It hasn't worked since installation
(I can't read iso9660 CDs).
3. Is there an easy way to change the screen refresh rate (e.g. I have
100Hz and want 85Hz) ?
Sorry that the mail got so long...
Thanx in advance.
Roman
