Re: [newbie] Mouse Freezes Install process on 6.1
Okay, It was easy I just had to unplug the mouse and away the install went. From: Jeanette Russo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Mouse Freezes Install process on 6.1 Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 19:13:06 -0500 Regional Webmaster wrote: I did not find a way of disableing the mouse autoprobe during install.. One option that i came across was to copy the cd to hard drive and replace the mouseconfig 3.9 with the redhat mouseconfig file,(which apparantly didn't freeze). It seemed a long way around for me, so i pulled my laptop apart and physically disconnected the mouse, installed linux with no problems on mouseprobe. selected the standard os2 mouse as an install option and then reconnected everything.. worked fine.. the Xconfigurator took me some time to get right. basicly i just played with Xconfigurator in a v-console till i got it right.. Initally had to settle for 640 x 480 but fiddling is the way to do it. Sorry i cannot be of more help, but i am very new to linux. Good luck. -- From: Ryan Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Mouse Freezes Install process on 6.1 Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 6:42 AM Francisco Alonso wrote: Ryan Baxter wrote: When trying to install my machine freezes after the probing of the mouse. It says that is has found a PS/2 compatible mouse and then the keyboard freezes completely. Any advice or suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks. ryan Do you have a laptop with one of this new pointer devices that you control moving the finger across a strange surface? I have had the same problem just this morning. At the shop they said me that is a problem with this specific kind of device (sorry). I have changed to a Fujitsu with just a single buttom that works as a joystick. It works fine but my problem now is to configure the TFT monitor in XFree86Setup. Any idea? ***I have a regular desktop computer. 200 mhz and 32 meg or ram. I have encountered this problem with other linux help sites. Nothing however, that gives a fix yet. Apparently to avoid the probing of the mouse or any other device you can specify this at the boot prompt. boot: linux hdb=noprobe hdc=cdrom This was the example on the Red Hat site. I will try this and substitue mouse for cdrom and see if I can get anywhere. I dont know about your laptop but mine has a setting in the bios to disable the touchpad . Jeanette __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] Mouse Freezes Install process on 6.1
When trying to install my machine freezes after the probing of the mouse. It says that is has found a PS/2 compatible mouse and then the keyboard freezes completely. Any advice or suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks. ryan
Re: [newbie] Mouse Freezes Install process on 6.1
Ryan Baxter wrote: When trying to install my machine freezes after the probing of the mouse. It says that is has found a PS/2 compatible mouse and then the keyboard freezes completely. Any advice or suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks. ryan Do you have a laptop with one of this new pointer devices that you control moving the finger across a strange surface? I have had the same problem just this morning. At the shop they said me that is a problem with this specific kind of device (sorry). I have changed to a Fujitsu with just a single buttom that works as a joystick. It works fine but my problem now is to configure the TFT monitor in XFree86Setup. Any idea? -- Francisco Alonso-Sarria Area de Geografia Fisica Universidad de Murcia Campus de La Merced E-30001 MURCIA +34 968364357 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Mouse Freezes Install process on 6.1
I did not find a way of disableing the mouse autoprobe during install.. One option that i came across was to copy the cd to hard drive and replace the mouseconfig 3.9 with the redhat mouseconfig file,(which apparantly didn't freeze). It seemed a long way around for me, so i pulled my laptop apart and physically disconnected the mouse, installed linux with no problems on mouseprobe. selected the standard os2 mouse as an install option and then reconnected everything.. worked fine.. the Xconfigurator took me some time to get right. basicly i just played with Xconfigurator in a v-console till i got it right.. Initally had to settle for 640 x 480 but fiddling is the way to do it. Sorry i cannot be of more help, but i am very new to linux. Good luck. -- From: Ryan Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Mouse Freezes Install process on 6.1 Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 6:42 AM Francisco Alonso wrote: Ryan Baxter wrote: When trying to install my machine freezes after the probing of the mouse. It says that is has found a PS/2 compatible mouse and then the keyboard freezes completely. Any advice or suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks. ryan Do you have a laptop with one of this new pointer devices that you control moving the finger across a strange surface? I have had the same problem just this morning. At the shop they said me that is a problem with this specific kind of device (sorry). I have changed to a Fujitsu with just a single buttom that works as a joystick. It works fine but my problem now is to configure the TFT monitor in XFree86Setup. Any idea? ***I have a regular desktop computer. 200 mhz and 32 meg or ram. I have encountered this problem with other linux help sites. Nothing however, that gives a fix yet. Apparently to avoid the probing of the mouse or any other device you can specify this at the boot prompt. boot: linux hdb=noprobe hdc=cdrom This was the example on the Red Hat site. I will try this and substitue mouse for cdrom and see if I can get anywhere.
Re: [newbie] Mouse Freezes Install process on 6.1
try at the boot. linux expert or expert noprobe . didn't work for me, but worth a try none the less. When trying to install my machine freezes after the probing of the mouse. It says that is has found a PS/2 compatible mouse and then the keyboard freezes completely. Any advice or suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks. ryan Do you have a laptop with one of this new pointer devices that you control moving the finger across a strange surface? I have had the same problem just this morning. At the shop they said me that is a problem with this specific kind of device (sorry). I have changed to a Fujitsu with just a single buttom that works as a joystick. It works fine but my problem now is to configure the TFT monitor in XFree86Setup. Any idea? ***I have a regular desktop computer. 200 mhz and 32 meg or ram. I have encountered this problem with other linux help sites. Nothing however, that gives a fix yet. Apparently to avoid the probing of the mouse or any other device you can specify this at the boot prompt. boot: linux hdb=noprobe hdc=cdrom This was the example on the Red Hat site. I will try this and substitue mouse for cdrom and see if I can get anywhere.
Re: [newbie] Mouse Freezes Install process on 6.1
Regional Webmaster wrote: I did not find a way of disableing the mouse autoprobe during install.. One option that i came across was to copy the cd to hard drive and replace the mouseconfig 3.9 with the redhat mouseconfig file,(which apparantly didn't freeze). It seemed a long way around for me, so i pulled my laptop apart and physically disconnected the mouse, installed linux with no problems on mouseprobe. selected the standard os2 mouse as an install option and then reconnected everything.. worked fine.. the Xconfigurator took me some time to get right. basicly i just played with Xconfigurator in a v-console till i got it right.. Initally had to settle for 640 x 480 but fiddling is the way to do it. Sorry i cannot be of more help, but i am very new to linux. Good luck. -- From: Ryan Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Mouse Freezes Install process on 6.1 Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 6:42 AM Francisco Alonso wrote: Ryan Baxter wrote: When trying to install my machine freezes after the probing of the mouse. It says that is has found a PS/2 compatible mouse and then the keyboard freezes completely. Any advice or suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks. ryan Do you have a laptop with one of this new pointer devices that you control moving the finger across a strange surface? I have had the same problem just this morning. At the shop they said me that is a problem with this specific kind of device (sorry). I have changed to a Fujitsu with just a single buttom that works as a joystick. It works fine but my problem now is to configure the TFT monitor in XFree86Setup. Any idea? ***I have a regular desktop computer. 200 mhz and 32 meg or ram. I have encountered this problem with other linux help sites. Nothing however, that gives a fix yet. Apparently to avoid the probing of the mouse or any other device you can specify this at the boot prompt. boot: linux hdb=noprobe hdc=cdrom This was the example on the Red Hat site. I will try this and substitue mouse for cdrom and see if I can get anywhere. I dont know about your laptop but mine has a setting in the bios to disable the touchpad . Jeanette
