Hi Roman,
I have MDK7.1 and noticed that when I selected Intellimouse PS/2 it jumped
across the top of the screen. If you encounter this, hold down the following
keys: Cntrl+Alt+Backspace
This should get you back to the kde prompt and log in again.
The sensitivity settings are ....well... very sensitive. Personally, I keep
the settings low or off.
Using RpmDrake
When using Rpmdrake:
A) Single click on the icon and choose the file of interest and click on the
install bar
B) You will be prompted by small window asking you to insert cdrom1.
C) If you do not place the installation CD in the tray, your rpm file will
not install
D) Try not to double-click too fast because it will call up an installation
from cdrom1, cdrom2,
If you have overclicked, close the cdromx windows prompt
Check to see if your mouse is supported on the linux-mandrakesoft.com web
page.
Roman
Registered Linux User 179293
----- Original Message -----
From: Roman Korcek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2000 6:25 AM
Subject: [newbie] mouse driver and CD-ROM problems
> 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
>
> --------
> /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
>
> --------
>
> 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
>
>
