RE: [newbie] Trouble with USB mouse on Toshiba Laptop
Title: RE: [newbie] Trouble with USB mouse on Toshiba Laptop Thanks Jason, I will take a look Fred -Original Message- From: Jason [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 11:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Trouble with USB mouse on Toshiba Laptop I have those files for you now...hope they help!! Cheers Jason Mungandi, Fred wrote: Jason, Thanks for the tips. I will try tweaking the XF86Config-4 file. Please send me you config file. Thanks, Fred Mungandi -Original Message- From: Jason [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 7:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Trouble with USB mouse on Toshiba Laptop Don't give up!! You can get it to work I am reasonable certain of that. Though, Toshiba hardware is notorious for not playing nicely with Linux (they have staff that they employ jointly with MS=). I have gotten mine to work on my work box (an ASUS) by tweaking the XF86Config/-4 files by hand. They are on my work box or I would email them to you now. Basically you need to use the send core events argument for your usb mouse so it pipes the output through the normal mouse. I can get you my files as a sample tomorrow unless someone else has some handy or knows the changes that need to be made to those files. BTW, they are found in /etc/X11/ Cheers Jason Greenwood Mungandi, Fred wrote: Hi, I am a newbie to Linux. Over the weekend, I installed Mandrake 9.0 on a Toshiba Satellite 1905-S301 laptop. The little devil is powered by a P4 running at 2 GHz, has 40 GB HDD and 256 MB RAM. I installed it in a dual boot arrangement with Windows XP. The laptop has a touch pad mouse, which I do not use. Instead I use a Genius PowerScroll USB mouse connected through one of the two USB ports. It has no PS2 port at all. I also hooked up a USB keyboard in the remaining USB port. The problem is that the USB mouse does not work well. When X starts, the mouse only moves in the vertical direction with no horizontal movement at all. When I remove the mouse during startup and plug it in later when X has started, all goes well. It seems that hell breaks loose during startup, probably during auto probe. Could this be a problem with modprobe? Do I need a USB mouse driver of some sort? Please help I am very desperate. I am on the verge of giving up. Fred Mungandi Lusaka, Zambia Tel: +260-1-254303 Fax: +260-1-254532 Cell: +260-97-841560 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] Trouble with USB mouse on Toshiba Laptop
Title: RE: [newbie] Trouble with USB mouse on Toshiba Laptop Suerte, Thanks for your response. I have tried all the mouse options under Mandrake Control Centre. Nothings works so far. Fred -Original Message- From: Adolfo Bello [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 2:11 PM To: MDK Mandrake Subject: Re: [newbie] Trouble with USB mouse on Toshiba Laptop On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 03:09, Mungandi, Fred wrote: Hi, I am a newbie to Linux. Over the weekend, I installed Mandrake 9.0 on a Toshiba Satellite 1905-S301 laptop. The little devil is powered by a P4 running at 2 GHz, has 40 GB HDD and 256 MB RAM. I installed it in a dual boot arrangement with Windows XP. The laptop has a touch pad mouse, which I do not use. Instead I use a Genius PowerScroll USB mouse connected through one of the two USB ports. It has no PS2 port at all. I also hooked up a USB keyboard in the remaining USB port. The problem is that the USB mouse does not work well. When X starts, the mouse only moves in the vertical direction with no horizontal movement at all. When I remove the mouse during startup and plug it in later when X has started, all goes well. It seems that hell breaks loose during startup, probably during auto probe. Could this be a problem with modprobe? Do I need a USB mouse driver of some sort? Please help I am very desperate. I am on the verge of giving up. Fred Mungandi Lusaka, Zambia Tel: +260-1-254303 Fax: +260-1-254532 Cell: +260-97-841560 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a Toshiba 5005-S504 and my mouse is working nicely. It was detected as a USB wheel mouse by Mandrake. Mine is a Microsoft Intellimouse Optical. Anyway, go to Mandrake Control Center-Hardware-Mouse and try different ones. Maybe you find the right one in there. Suerte -- __ / \\ @ __ __ @ Adolfo Bello [EMAIL PROTECTED] / // // /\ / \\ // \ // Bello Ingenieria S.A, ICQ: 65910258 / \\ // / \\ / // // / // celular: +58 416 609-6213 /___// // / _/ \__\\ //__/ // fax : +58 212 952-6797 www.bisapi.com // pager : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] Trouble with USB mouse on Toshiba Laptop
Title: RE: [newbie] Trouble with USB mouse on Toshiba Laptop Jason, Thanks for the tips. I will try tweaking the XF86Config-4 file. Please send me you config file. Thanks, Fred Mungandi -Original Message- From: Jason [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 7:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Trouble with USB mouse on Toshiba Laptop Don't give up!! You can get it to work I am reasonable certain of that. Though, Toshiba hardware is notorious for not playing nicely with Linux (they have staff that they employ jointly with MS=). I have gotten mine to work on my work box (an ASUS) by tweaking the XF86Config/-4 files by hand. They are on my work box or I would email them to you now. Basically you need to use the send core events argument for your usb mouse so it pipes the output through the normal mouse. I can get you my files as a sample tomorrow unless someone else has some handy or knows the changes that need to be made to those files. BTW, they are found in /etc/X11/ Cheers Jason Greenwood Mungandi, Fred wrote: Hi, I am a newbie to Linux. Over the weekend, I installed Mandrake 9.0 on a Toshiba Satellite 1905-S301 laptop. The little devil is powered by a P4 running at 2 GHz, has 40 GB HDD and 256 MB RAM. I installed it in a dual boot arrangement with Windows XP. The laptop has a touch pad mouse, which I do not use. Instead I use a Genius PowerScroll USB mouse connected through one of the two USB ports. It has no PS2 port at all. I also hooked up a USB keyboard in the remaining USB port. The problem is that the USB mouse does not work well. When X starts, the mouse only moves in the vertical direction with no horizontal movement at all. When I remove the mouse during startup and plug it in later when X has started, all goes well. It seems that hell breaks loose during startup, probably during auto probe. Could this be a problem with modprobe? Do I need a USB mouse driver of some sort? Please help I am very desperate. I am on the verge of giving up. Fred Mungandi Lusaka, Zambia Tel: +260-1-254303 Fax: +260-1-254532 Cell: +260-97-841560 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Trouble with USB mouse on Toshiba Laptop
Title: Trouble with USB mouse on Toshiba Laptop Hi, I am a newbie to Linux. Over the weekend, I installed Mandrake 9.0 on a Toshiba Satellite 1905-S301 laptop. The little devil is powered by a P4 running at 2 GHz, has 40 GB HDD and 256 MB RAM. I installed it in a dual boot arrangement with Windows XP. The laptop has a touch pad mouse, which I do not use. Instead I use a Genius PowerScroll USB mouse connected through one of the two USB ports. It has no PS2 port at all. I also hooked up a USB keyboard in the remaining USB port. The problem is that the USB mouse does not work well. When X starts, the mouse only moves in the vertical direction with no horizontal movement at all. When I remove the mouse during startup and plug it in later when X has started, all goes well. It seems that hell breaks loose during startup, probably during auto probe. Could this be a problem with modprobe? Do I need a USB mouse driver of some sort? Please help I am very desperate. I am on the verge of giving up. Fred Mungandi Lusaka, Zambia Tel: +260-1-254303 Fax: +260-1-254532 Cell: +260-97-841560 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Help - Can't get LAN working
Title: Help - Can't get LAN working Hi, I am a newbie to Linux. I have Mandrake 9.0 on a Compaq ML310 server with 512 MB memory, 2.0 Ghz P4 processor. The server has an integrated NC7760 PCI Gigabit network adapter which gets detected alright. I proceed to assign an IP address, subnet mask and other TCP/IP network parameters to it. Sever does not complain but the network does not come up. ie, ping to the local ethernet produces no reply. Could I be missing something?. Anyone with this experience? Looking forward to your assistance. Fred Mungandi Lusaka, Zambia Tel: +260-1-254303 Fax: +260-1-254532 Cell: +260-97-841560 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
