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From: "jeremy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 6:19 AM
Subject: [newbie] installing 7.1
> Hello...
>
> I'm new to linux in general...
>
> I've had 7.0 for a wile now.. and it worked perfect for me..
>
> I was happy when 7.1 came out....
>
> But when I tried installing it I got in to problems..
>
> In the beginning of the install.. I have mouse and keyboard control (
> USB both )
>
> When the install tried scanning the SCSI bus for devs. my keyboard
> lights flashed and I lost control of my mouse, the keyboard still
> worked...
>
> I went through the install with the keyboard.
>
> When I rebooted I still didn't have mouse acces and once in a will the
> keyboard would start acting up.
Try editing /etc/sysconfig/usb to read
KEYBOARD=yes
MOUSE=yes
That should force the system to load the generic USB mouse driver.
Charles