goes to say you have already tried to boot into runlevel 3 (init 3, or in lilo type linux 3) and login as root run "mousedrake", try the logitech mouseman+ if you have the wheelmouse
On Saturday 18 May 2002 05:26 pm, you wrote: > Hi et, > > Saturday, May 18, 2002, 9:28:07 PM, you wrote: > > e> hey if you want to send me that "bad HD" I would be more than pleased to > have e> it. my guess is that you did not install some network service that > was not e> only installed previously but was mis-configured, and since you > did not e> install it this time, you are not waitting for it to time out > everytime e> before your computer finds each file it needs to read into > memory. > > Well I put it on another machine, formatted the Linux off it and > installed Win2000 ... guess what S L O W and wasn't even on the > network ;-) While taking it out the machine I noticed it had a 3 year > warrantee and still valid, so logged on to Maxtor and seems I just > need to send it back and two days later a replacement arrives! > > Anyway, latest saga ... probably the last as I'm pretty well sick of > trying to get Mandrake to work on my machine ... is that the MS > optical mouse won't work. Tried a work around Derek found me: > > "you´ve got to edit the /etc/modules file, just include the hid module > you must add "hid" into the file /etc/modules then the mouse works > fine" > > but still doesn't work. > > With best wishes, > > Dave
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