shaner

Steve,

 

Thanks for the thought, however it is too late. I'm running the New Ubuntu. I might add that my wireless mouse worked out of the box, so did my wireless D-Link wireless card. I really enjoyed Mandriva, and probably would have had a better experience if I had did a fresh install of LE2005 rather than upgrade from 10.1Community. I may be back to Mandriva, we will have to see, but for now I'm exploring Ubuntu, and rather impressed with it.

 

Shane

Ok, this is ridiculous! I put the numbers back after Mandriva switched them, and now, I'm back to no scrolling??? I'm about to do a complete re-install, and I may install Ubuntu to try it out for a bit. This stuff is driving me crazy. I just want a user friendly operating system that is usable! I really like Mandriva, but there are many issues to be worked through for the average user to pick it up and use it. I'm burning CD's in case I come back to Mandriva, but I hope it is just my installation that has all these issues, goofy scrolling, no laptop battery monitoring, no wireless working, slow boot-up issues and KDE is choppy sometimes??? I have all updates, and theoretically should be running fine!!!

 

Shane

Often when you want to do something a little unusual, you can find very usefull information in the manual pages and the documentation on the web.

I suggest you go and read the documentation for the config file. I read it once a long time ago (that was for XFree86 but it should be more or less the same for X.Org), and I do remember reading about configuring two axes.

Good luck.

 

Yves.

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I don't know where to find this info??? or what I should be looking for, could you expain a little more?

 

Also, I booted up today and it replaced my xorg.conf file, it changed my numbers again. I had to go back and re-edit that file. Any ideas on why it would do that??? Thanks.

 

Shane

I'm using a Toshiba laptop, and it always shutoff when I use the shut off computer menu. I have used 10 Community on a HP laptop and it worked fine. I'm now using LE2005 and have never had a problem with the shutdown. I have not got the Battery monitor thing to work though. I never know how much battery I have. Sorry can't be of help to you there. I would try to run the updates, that seems to solve a lot of issues. If not, it is probably specific to your model Laptop, since I have run on two, or three different laptops with 10 community and LE2005 and shut down fine. Good luck.

 

Shane

Ok, I checked the startups and only found one, the Tetrinetx that mentioned server in it. I disabled it. Everything else seemed normal, or something that I use. I guess I could uncheck samba, how hard is that to start. I had XP and Mandriva networked before, but not now. Thanks for the tip. I will try it in Gnome too later. I rarely boot into Gnome.

 

Oh, by the way my laptop is a Satelite M or something. It doesn't say, but I remember it was a Satelite M.

 

 

Shane

ianw,

 

Great!!! That was easy. There were a few alsa's that I didn't remove because of thier dependencies, it would have removed about 50 things, many said KDE, and Gnome which scared me! I would be a fish out of water without them! Thanks.

 

Shane

lanw,

 

Yep, I have all updates applied. I like to keep things up to date, and found that they have fixed my USB port problem that I had before.

 

Shane

Ok, I dual boot on a Toshiba laptop with a celeron M, with about 700 MB ram. I use XP home and LE2005. When I boot into Mandriva it takes 1 minute to boot to the KDE startup screen and then another 1 minute to boot KDE. Is this normal? I have DSL, and usually am connected. When I pull all the plugs to my computer to take it on the road, and want to boot into Mandriva, it is even longer yet (I haven't timed it yet). Are there any practical ways to fix this? I still want the usability of everything without having to open a terminal and typing a bunch of confusing commands in that I won't remember. Any ideas? Thanks.

 

Shane

Ok, I was weeding out files that I didn't think I used. I was running short on space, and cleaned house. I don't know how to do that in Linux other than deleting my files, and then MCC remove files. I did this about 2 months ago, and now realized I don't have sound. I think it was a result of my house cleaning, but am not sure. I'm a causual linux user running LE2005. Anyone got any ideas on what I deleted??? Thanks in advance.

 

Shane

I get them often, and I don't know where the cooker is! I know that it is something to do with new stuff that is still in development stages, or at least beleive that is the case. Anyway, I always ignore them. I guess I'm conditioned that way too.

 

Shane

Ok, I did the same for my card, and it still doesn't run. What would be the next step. I don't know how to make it active?

 

Thanks.

Shane

Hovel,

 

Well, I have basically be content to have a scrolling mouse. The last site you posted was helpfull, however I still haven't figured it out. I have buttons 4 and 5 as my scrolling wheel. That leaves 6 and 7 as my "tilt wheel" to scroll side to side. I have tried a few different configurations, but haven't got anywhere. I don't know how to incorporate my 6 and 7 buttons. I'm really not a programer, just a computer user. Thanks for the help.

 

Shane

Hovel,

 

Ok, I added the extra numbers and it didn't do anything. I put what you said. After I tried to switch the 6 and 7 so it was

 

Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 7 6"

 

It didn't work either. At least I'm scrolling!!! Any other ideas for the side to side scroll feature? Thanks for the help.

 

shane

Ok, that line didn't help any. It didn't mess things up either. Does anyone know what a line like that should look like? Thanks.

Finally!!! Thanks hovel for the post!!! The numbers explanation really helped! Now I can scroll!!! Now, this is a side thing, and not nearly as important. It is more of a challenge to fix. The Scrolling Wheel can tilt side to side for scrolling side to side. And ideas on that?? Maybe if I make it 7 buttons, and make a new line that would read,

 

Option "YAxisMapping" "6 7"

 

-- I'm guessing on this, I just made this line up based on the other line.

Any thoughts on this?? Any one have a left to right scrolling option? Thanks.

 

Shane

Ok, Maybe I didn't specify, but my mouse only has 2 real buttons and you can press the wheel to act as the third button. Also you should be able to tilt the wheel to the left and to the right so that it will scroll side to side. I'm replacing the number 7 that I had to 5 with the 4 and 5 for the wheel and see if that helps matters. I will let you know.

ianw1974,

 

Ok, I tried his code for his xorg.conf file, but this didn't fix my problem. I even installed that imwheel thing, and nothing. I tried his little checks but his modmap things started to go beyond my ability. In short, I still have a mouse that wont scroll, and that is really annoying. Doesn't anyone else have a logitech mouse??? I guess I should have bought a M$ mouse. Too late now. Any other ideas?

Ok, a few more clues for the riddle. First, I had a small misunderstanding of

restarting x

. I thought I just needed to log out of KDE and log back in. This didn't do anything for me though. I had to completely restart the computer.

 

I took and copied the entire code for Steve's mouse and found that it did work, but not correctly. When I tried to scroll it moved me backward and forward in my web browser (Like the little green arrows at the top of the browser in FireFox). When I tried in my files thingy, it didn't do anything. When I pushed the wheel down in the file thingy it opened the folder in a new box.

 

When I cut out all the emulate lines and rebooted, the scroll wheel doesn't move. When I push the wheel down, it takes me to some wierd page that it pulls out of the blue. If someone has a Logitech mouse with two buttons and a scroll wheel in the center could post their code that would be great. I will just copy and paste it. I'm not into this programing things. Thanks.

 

Shane

Ok, if all I need to do to comment it out is add a little # symbol, then..... it didn't work. I still can't scroll. Any other ideas? Thanks!

 

Shane

Section "InputDevice"
   Identifier "Mouse1"
   Driver "mouse"
   Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
   Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
   Option "Emulate3Buttons"
   Option "Emulate3Timeout" "50"
   Option "EmulateWheel"
   Option "EmulateWheelButton" "2"
EndSection

 

 

Another part has this

Section "ServerLayout"
   Identifier "layout1"
   InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
   InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
   Screen "screen1"
EndSection

 

Thanks.

 

Shane

Ok, what is the catch. I did a quick search on Logitech Wireless Mouse, and came up with a post that was all good! I'm running LE2005 on a Tosh Laptop with loads of RAM (768MB) a Celeron M processor. When I plugged my mouse in it worked, but choppy, so now I messed around with it, and now it doesn't scroll. It is a two button mouse with a scroll wheel that can tilt from side to side to help with scrolling sideways. I would be happy just to scroll up and down. I know the mouse is fine as I use it with Windows. How can I delete the mouse settings and reset this one. I don't know what I did to mess it up, it was a while ago. I mentioned the memory and processor, because it is almost like my computer has low memory. I'm using KDE. Thanks!

 

 

Shane

Ok, great! I will have to give it a try. I appreciate the info.

 

Shane

I need a program that is compatible, with Page Maker in Linux. Any ideas? Thanks. I need to lay out text for printing.

 

Shane

Are you completely updated? That should be your first move. I had a problem with one of my USB ports on my laptop, and just tried recently and it now works. I'm assuming this was an update issue that solved this problem. I didn't do any else to fix it. I read the KDE and LE2005 are supposed to handle the USB situation better than the Mandrake 10 did. Download all the updates.

 

Shane

Any other ideas on getting more than 1000 contacts into evolution? One at a time is not going to work. Thanks!

 

Are there any other PIM's out there besides these two?

 

Shane