That is good to know. The TP 600 is relatively old.
At 04:42 PM 5/9/2001 -0700, you wrote:
> All I have a PS/2 mouse on my Sony, desktop and I use
> /dev/psaux. Have you tried that?
How would I get to that during the install?
> Did you upgrade your BIOS? And try setting PNP BIOS to no PNP.
My BIOS is current, but it doesn't offer this option (at least not anywhere
I can find).
Oh well, I guess I'll either have to switch to Red-Hat, or stay with 7.2.
Tx anyway.
At 04:39 PM 5/9/2001 -0700, Civileme wrote:
>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
