On Wednesday 09 May 2001 10:09, A. Rick Anderson wrote:
> You also won't find a working install. I tried the text install and it did
> exactly what I figured it would do. It still doesn't recognize the PS/2
> mouse. Thus, you get the new 8.0 image, and you can't do a thing.
> <sigh> There goes two days worth of work. I'm just glad I didn't try an
> upgrade on a real, working server.
>
> So for the time being, Mandrake 8.0 doesn't support, nor run on an IBM
> Thinkpad, and presumably, any computer using a PS/2 mouse.
Wrong--that is unique to the thinkpad, and I have an A20 working here WITH
Trakpoint, so the full impact of the situation is probably a very few models.
Civileme
>
> At 12:22 PM 5/9/2001 -0700, you wrote:
> >On Wednesday 09 May 2001 05:44, A. Rick Anderson wrote:
> > > I successfully installed several versions of 7.2, including the latest
> > > freq pack. However, the install program for 8.0 won't recognize either
> > > my trackpoint, nor an attached PS/2 mouse. I've tried both.
> > >
> > > I am running on a IBM Thinkpad 600 with Max memory (298 MBytes I
> > > believe). PS/2 Mouse support seems like a bizarre thing to break on a
> > > new OS release.
> >
> >Speaking of bizarre things, all the other distros are activating the
> >lm_sensors module by default. The IBM laptop owners who try to check
> > battery power are in for a factory-return-for-new-motherboard level
> > surprise.
> >
> >You will not find the lm_sensors loaded or activated by default on this
> >distro.
> >
> >The bugfix for PS/2 keyboard without PS/2 mouse freezing the install was
> >responsible for breaking this one. Since IBM has less than 5% market
> > share on laptops, we don't have one readily available for testing.
> >
> >However, I did test an install and it worked fine, using
> >
> >F1 at the splash screen....
> >
> >Then typing "text expert" without the quotes
> >
> >Then proceeding with text install...
> >
> >Civileme
