To Charles and Siro Thanks for your help. Just getting to a terminal without a mouse was great! I didn't uninstall imwheel but as Charles suggested, I ran mousedrake and reconfigured my standard PS/2 mouse which is now working fine again. Had another go at trying to get the cordless intellimouse to work but no luck yet. At least I can use my std mouse in the meantime. I'll get around to the intellimouse someday ;-). Meanwhile, I just want to get to know Mandrake and learn more console commands. Thanks again. Cheers skinky > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Siro Belza > Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 7:38 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] imwheel = no mouse > > > Hello, > > > > I have just started my computer and Linux booted OK (see > below) but no > > mouse at all, not even with the standard mouse after > rebooting. As I don't > > know L-Mandrake at all, I can't seem to navigate anywhere > from the desktop > > using the keyboard (in KDE). > > > > Is there any way that I can uninstall imwheel without using > the mouse to do > > it? I fear I will have to reinstall the OS (eeek!). > > > > I don't think that uninstalling imwheel is going to help, but try it. > > To uninstall imwheel: > > -switch to a terminal by pressing <Alt>+<Ctrl>+<F1> at the same time > -switch to root with the command "su" and enter your password > -type "rpm -e imwheel" (this will uninstall the imwheel rpm package) > > > Try using your old PS/2 mouse again to see if it works. Once > you have your > old mouse working, use the Mandrake Control Center (the icon > is located on > your desktop) to install your new microsoft intellimouse. > > If your old mouse turns out not to work, you will need to > install a mouse > in text-mode: switch to a terminal and run "harddrake" to > configure it. > Before you uninstall imwheel. >From the commandline as describrd above run mousedrake to reconfigure your mouse. Charles _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
