Anand Kumria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Anyone else having problems installing corel linux cos
> > it won't detect the mouse? It's just completely dead.
> > It's a bog standard 3 button M$ serial mouse.
>
> Bizarre. What happens when you unplug the mouse?
nothing! I tried my netscroll mouse as well, same thing
(rebooting and starting again too).
> > I tried continuing using the cursor, tab, space etc keys
> > but couldn't get past the fdisk bit cos I couldn't work
> > out how to set the mount point for the root partition.
>
> >From memory it is <enter>
I tried that (and everything else I could think of too).
It was made worse by the fact it was so slow. I don't know
if that's the fault of corel's gui combined with the PC
being a P166 with 16Mb of RAM though. Seems hard to believe
though given that KDE worked ok (albeit slowly - but not as
slow as the corel install gui).
> > Pity cos it seemed quite "linux newbie friendly" apart
> > from the mouse (a critical problem!).
> >
> > Note: other versions of linux I've tried have no problems
> > with this mouse (RH 5.1, slackware 4.0) but I've not tried
> > a debian based distribution before.
>
> While Corel is based upon Debian the installation sequence is nothing
> like a Debian one. IIRC Corel's mouse testing software uses
> gpm-mouse-test (or the gpm library) to do it's dirty work. Does
> gpm-mouse-test (in /usr/sbin) work under your other Linux distros? If
> not then probably there is some problem with gpm's library.
it works under gpm in the other distros, I'll try gpm-mouse-test
with it tonight.
I might also scrounge a real el-cheapo 2 button M$ serial mouse (the
type that came with all PCs a couple of years ago before the advent
of "fancy" mice) and see if that works.
Dave.
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