Roman, By the way ICUII is video camera utility and application that you can use with your computer. Roman Korcek wrote: > > To Dacia: > Thanx, I will try it. > > To Paul: > read further (and authorize me on ICQ...). > > To Roman: > Hey Romanator, > > > Wow. It looks like a nice mouse... > > Off topic but thanx ;-) > > > Try replacing the Generic Mouse PS/2 with a Generic Serial Mouse first. > > In two earlier mails I mentioned that I DID NOT KNOW HOW TO CHANGE THE > MOUSE DRIVER. I was asking this all the time... > Sorry if this sounded upset. I know that I should be happy that > someone is trying to help (thanx), but please, if you want to help, > read what I write. > > Fortunately, yesterday a friend told me I should use "mouseconfig". So > I tried it out and tried to change the mouse driver. However, I don't > know if it REALLY changed the driver, because my mouse behaved weird > with every driver I selected and everytime I started mouseconfig to > try another driver, it always started with Generic Mouse PS/2 selected. > > BTW: I found a file /etc/sysconfig/mouse - is it just a file to read > or does it help to edit it ? > > And concerning what you wrote - replacing the PS/2 driver with a > serial driver - how would that work ? I have my mouse on PS/2, so > what would it help ? > > > If that does not work, replace it with the MS Intellimouse serial. > > Again, why selecting Serial if I have PS/2 ? > > Of course, if everything else fails I can use the adapter for the > mouse and use it as COM, but I would have to change it in Windows. But > I can try to see if it changes anything. I will tell you tomorrow. > > > Have you checked to see if it is a serial mouse or USB? > > It is PS/2, don't worry, I know the difference ;-) > > > I have a fairly good book on Upgrading and Repairing PCs - Linux > > Version. I will access as much information as possible to get your mouse > > working. > > Thank you. > > > Next we will work on the CDROM and floppy. > > Could you provide me with some extra information: > > Before you read further, there is a mail from Dacia and AzureRose > saying: > > > Is it a cd r/w? If it is you have to configure it as > > a scsi device. Follow the CD R/W instructions on > > this page: > > > > http://mandrakeuser.org/hardware/hremov3.html > > > > I tried supermount once.....it never worked so I go > > the old fashonde way now. > > So yes, it is a CD-RW drive, I will try the instructions on the page. > I didn't think it made a difference. > > But I still have some questions about partitions and LILO and /boot > which I would ask, so I'll answer your questions and then ask you. > > > 1. How do you have your hard drive drive configured? > > Primary Master, 20GB, split into 2GB (let's call it c:), 16GB (d:), > 2GB(e:). The first C: drive is the bootable one with Windows on it. > The D: I use for my progs and stuff under Windows. The E: was split > into Ext2 and Swap by Mandrake installation. Under Linux I have it as > / and the C: partition is my /boot dir. > > > 2. Are you using more that one drive? > > One hard disk - Primary Master, one CD-RW - Secondary Master. > > > 5. Is you CDROM daisy chained? > > Sorry, I don't know what "daisy chained" means. > > My questions: At install time, I selected C: as my /boot dir and E: as > the / dir. But LILO did not install saying something about cylinder > numbers being higher than 1024. Well here I have heard that it is > fixed in GRUB, so my question is - what should I do if I want to > install GRUB, so that I don't have to use a boot disk anymore ? > (Please, answer 'Newbie style') > > Second question: How can I create another bootdisk, just in case > the old one gets bad sectors or something ? > > Third: What is actually the /boot partition and are there any rules > where it has to point to ? > > > By the way, when you get any message, error message i.e. selecting the > > CDROM, can you please write down the exact message. > > OK, though the proposed solution by Dacia might solve it, I'll include > what Linux says. > First, I changed the fstab as Paul told me to, now it is: > /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 > > After typing cd /mnt/cdrom it says: > > ide-scsi: hdc: unsupported command in request queue (0) > isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=16:00, iso_blknum=16, block=32 > ide-scsi: hdc: unsupported command in request queue (0) > isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=16:00, iso_blknum=16, block=32 > bash: cd: /mnt/cdrom: Input/output error > > > This would be a great idea to consider ICUII video for Linux. This way, > > I could see the inside of you computer. > > What is that ICUII thing ? > > Thanx for helping, > Roman
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