Well isn't this funny. Give me long enough and I solve the problem myself.
Thanks everyone for your good intentions, though, that I know you had, to
help if you knew how (: (like the poor people whom Alma told to say in their
hearts that they would give if they had any money)
I tried logging in as a different user, and lo and behold there were no mouse
issues. So I immediately blamed it on Mandrake's cool galaxy window
decoration I was running on my primary account because it had been known to
have issues, but it wasn't that, nor any of the other things that came to
mind. So I wiped .kde and logged back in and the mouse worked! Through lots
of file swapping I finally found that something in .kde/share/config was to
blame. So I copied, in stages, all the config files I cared about from my
old .kde to the fresh one, and tests showed after each one that everything
was groovy. So I'm not entirely sure which file in ../config was to blame,
but that doesn't matter since I've got all the ones that store things I care
about. Pretty cool. I've learned all kind of cool stuff about runlevels
(which turned out to have pretty much no connection with this problem, it
would seem) and kde's structure through this little issue. And finally I can
have peace and go do the other things I should have been doing the whole time
I was trying to get my mouse button to work.
Mandrake is way cool. RpmDrake with a good list of sources can find and
install from a combination of install cd's and ftp servers and anything else
you want (all working in sync in a very cool way) just about everything I've
looked for. Super convenient. In the proper config area there's a button
you can click called "Get windows fonts" and it does it automatically. I
like this Galaxy theme a lot. My printer worked without hitches, but even
more amazing it correctly set up my (apparently) obscure sound card with alsa
out of the box, without ANY configuring on my part. Every other distro I've
gotten I've had to spend hours getting that thing to work. Mandrake's menu
system actually makes sense. And in general, it just seems to get along
nicely with KDE, which thing redhat only did halfheartedly. Finally, the
thing that excites me the most maybe, Mandrake appears to run Mesa with full
hardware support for my NVidia card. Stupendous. Oh the things I can do....
-James Nickerson
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