Re: [Cooker] Cooker glitches - does not detect mouse at the beginning of install
Kaixo! On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 03:09:28PM -0700, Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On the language screen, is "Netherlands" spelled correctly? It is wrong (well, maybe 'neitherland' exists; but it doesn't mean the same). Fixing it. Uhhh, theres nothing wrong with it. That really is the correct spelling. Uh? Neitherlands but Netherlander ? -- Ki ça vos våye bén, Pablo Saratxaga http://www.ping.be/~pin19314/ PGP Key available, key ID: 0x8F0E4975
[Cooker] Cooker glitches - does not detect mouse at the beginning of install
Using cooker from a Dec 12 image, the install would not detect my PS/2 mouse. I aborted the install after a few screens; I did try to continue with a "non-mouse" install but I did notice: On the language screen, is "Netherlands" spelled correctly? The visual differences between a selected button and a non-selected button were not very noticable, making it difficult to use the tab, arrow and enter key to continue the install. The tab key won't take me to the info section to allow me to read the explanations of the choices. I finally stopped at the partitioning screen, fearing I would munge my drive. It seemed impossible to navigate this screen correctly without a mouse. Kudos on the look of the graphic-based install. I have not seen it since the September build. What file should be up-dated to fix the mouse problem? Hoyt
Re: [Cooker] Cooker glitches - does not detect mouse at the beginning of install
"Hoyt" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Using cooker from a Dec 12 image, the install would not detect my PS/2
mouse. I aborted the install after a few screens; I did try to continue with
a "non-mouse" install but I did notice:
On the language screen, is "Netherlands" spelled correctly?
ispell seems happy with it. someone knows better?
The visual differences between a selected button and a non-selected button
were not very noticable, making it difficult to use the tab, arrow and enter
key to continue the install.
this is a known i'm complaining about. Alas it can't be a priority since not a
lot of people do complain about it :-/
The tab key won't take me to the info section to allow me to read the
explanations of the choices.
do you really need help? ;-)
I finally stopped at the partitioning screen, fearing I would munge my
drive. It seemed impossible to navigate this screen correctly without a
mouse.
look at www.linux-mandrake.com/drakx/SHORTCUTS
Kudos on the look of the graphic-based install. I have not seen it since the
September build. What file should be up-dated to fix the mouse problem?
alas i don't know what the problem is. please test the following:
#!/usr/bin/perl
sub tryOpen($) {
local *F;
sysopen F, $_[0], 2048 and *F;
}
sub hasMousePS2() {
my $t; sysread(tryOpen("/dev/psaux") || return, $t, 256) != 1 || $t ne "\xFE";
}
print !hasMousePS2() "not ", "detected", "\n";
Re: [Cooker] Cooker glitches - does not detect mouse at the beginning of install
Pixel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] I finally stopped at the partitioning screen, fearing I would munge my drive. It seemed impossible to navigate this screen correctly without a mouse. look at www.linux-mandrake.com/drakx/SHORTCUTS by the way, i only use keyboard when installing ;-) (at least in Recommended and Custom)
Re: [Cooker] Cooker glitches - does not detect mouse at the beginning of install
Kaixo! On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 03:56:53PM +0100, Pixel wrote: On the language screen, is "Netherlands" spelled correctly? ispell seems happy with it. someone knows better? It is wrong (well, maybe 'neitherland' exists; but it doesn't mean the same). Fixing it. -- Ki ça vos våye bén, Pablo Saratxaga http://www.ping.be/~pin19314/ PGP Key available, key ID: 0x8F0E4975
Re: [Cooker] Cooker glitches - does not detect mouse at the beginning of install
- Original Message - From: Pablo Saratxaga [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 16, 1999 11:14 AM Subject: Re: [Cooker] Cooker glitches - does not detect mouse at the beginning of install Kaixo! On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 03:56:53PM +0100, Pixel wrote: On the language screen, is "Netherlands" spelled correctly? ispell seems happy with it. someone knows better? It is wrong (well, maybe 'neitherland' exists; but it doesn't mean the same). Fixing it. Pixel says it is correct, so I'll go with that. I looked at the shortcut page and tried to finish the install using the keyboard only (BTW, it detetcted the PS/2 mouse, but I had no cursor control; there was a symlink error and an attempt to delete a directory that didn't exist by the time the gui screen popped up). Cooker would not create a boot disk, not run lilo and not test X successfully. (My install configuration is for /dev/hda6 = /boot and /dev/hda14 = /). Upon shutdown, /dev/hda6 was empty (no kernel) and /etc/fstab was not configured correctly. I will try a non-drak-X install and see how that goes. Hoyt
