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Yes, its a USB mouse. I also tried one of those freebie Dell mice that I have (USB also), and they weren't detected. I didn't even get to the mouse selection dialog. The first graphical screen that came up, I think was for the language selection, and if you moved the mouse, the cursor would immediatly start jumping around. I have had this problem with Fedora, and the fix was to change the mouse protocol to something else in the x.org config file. Of course, I don't remember what that change was.

Hi, I tried to install 10.1 on my AMD box, but X will not work properly. I have a Microsoft intellimouse explorer USB mouse connected to that box. When the X installer begins, any movement of the mouse causes the cursor to move erradically all over the screen. Therefore, the mouse cannot be used during installation at all. I tried to begin using the text installer, but I wasn\'t sure if the mouse would work at all after install, so I just gave up. I\'ve installed Fedora and Suse on that box and they detected the mouse and it behaved properly. But I\'d really like to have mandrake on that machine if possible. Is there any command line options I can pass to the installer to get this to work right? Thanks in advance, Kevin

cannonfodder: I did not know what the profile.d files were, I'll take a look at them, I think that can work fine. Yves: I am using Mandrake 9. I'll post my inittab file at the bottom. I use KDE and KDM. Can you tell me what lines to add so that I can get KDM's on F8, F9, and F10? that would be really helpful. [kevin@localhost etc]$ cat inittab # # inittab This file describes how the INIT process should set up # the system in a certain run-level. # # Author: Miquel van Smoorenburg, <miquels@drinkel.nl.mugnet.org> # Modified for RHS Linux by Marc Ewing and Donnie Barnes # # Default runlevel. The runlevels used by Mandrake Linux are: # 0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this) # 1 - Single user mode # 2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have networking) # 3 - Full multiuser mode # 4 - unused # 5 - X11 # 6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this) # id:5:initdefault: # System initialization. si::sysinit:/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit l0:0:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 0 l1:1:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 1 l2:2:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 2 l3:3:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 3 l4:4:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 4 l5:5:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 5 l6:6:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 6 # Things to run in every runlevel. ud::once:/sbin/update # Trap CTRL-ALT-DELETE ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now # When our UPS tells us power has failed, assume we have a few minutes # of power left. Schedule a shutdown for 2 minutes from now. # This does, of course, assume you have powerd installed and your # UPS connected and working correctly. pf::powerfail:/sbin/shutdown -f -h +2 "Power Failure; System Shutting Down" # If power was restored before the shutdown kicked in, cancel it. pr:12345:powerokwait:/sbin/shutdown -c "Power Restored; Shutdown Cancelled" # Run gettys in standard runlevels 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1 2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2 3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3 4:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4 5:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty5 6:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6

If you put this line in your fstab file, it will mount automatically: /dev/sda1 /mnt/removable vfat umask=0 0 0 any USB storage device gets mounted as a SCSI harddrive. /dev/sda1 being the first SCSI drive. -Kevin

Hi, I want to write two shell scripts for my linux system, to make it more friendly. The first one, I know how to write it, but I'm not sure where to put it to allow it to run. The first one, is a script that would only run once, when I add a user. For every user, I want to set up a bunch of symbolic links, and set certain environment variables. Well, I guess the symbolic links would only have to be created once, but setting env variables could run everytime. The second script, would be the commands to get more than one X session going. I have used the commands (can't remember them now though) that would put a new X session onto the CTRL-ALT-F8 screen, and would have a new KDM, so that I could log into KDE on that second session, or someone else could log in without me having to log out of the F7 session. I know you can manually do that, but I wanted to have a script somewhere that would set it up automatically, so that when I boot up, I could immediatly hit CTRL-ALT-F8 and log into the second session without running any scripts on my own. I just don't know where/how to put a script so that it runs in that fashion. Thanks, Kevin

From work, I got a unit that you can put an old laptop hard drive into this shell, and plug it into USB port, and its an external hard drive. I was able to get Mandrake to recognize it, after rebooting with it plugged in. it put it at /mnt/removable. Seems to work pretty good. I did have to use drakdisk to format it. I first formatted it in Windows XP, but Linux couldn't read it. makes you wonder what XP has done to FAT 32. When I reformatted as FAT 32 through drakdisk, a reboot, it appeared. works great. good luck, Kevin

if you do a: export WANT_AUTOCONF_2_5=1 at the command line before compiling, that will cause Autoconf 2.5x to be used, instead of 2.13. you probably have both installed on your system. Good luck...

Also, if you go to www.pclinuxonline.com, at the bottom left is a link to Texstar's RPM mirror, and there are a bunch of cool RPMS, including one for the Keramik theme for KDE 3.0.

I have tried it with Sun 1.3 and 1.4. I have them installed in /usr/jdk1.3.1 and /usr/j2sdk1.4.0_02. I then created a symlink called /usr/java, which can point to either. Then I started eclipse like this: /opt/eclipse/eclipse -vm /usr/java/bin/java -ws gtk -data $HOME/eclipse Using either flavor of java did not make a difference. I have not tried IBM java yet. I did a 'export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java', and then ran the above command line, and I still got the crash.

Hi, I can't seem to get Eclipse running on Mandrake 9. I have tried using both jdk1.3 and jdk1.4. I have tried using the latest release, and the latest stable build. I always get this error: [kevin@localhost kevin]$ ./run_eclipse.sh java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: /opt/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.swt.gtk_2.0.1/os/linux/x86/libswt-pi-gtk-2049.so: /usr/lib/libpangoxft-1.0.so.0: undefined symbol: FT_Seek_Stream at java.lang.ClassLoader$NativeLibrary.load(Native Method) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary0(ClassLoader.java:1414) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(ClassLoader.java:1322) at java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary0(Runtime.java:744) at java.lang.System.loadLibrary(System.java:815) at org.eclipse.swt.internal.Library.loadLibrary(Library.java:104) at org.eclipse.swt.internal.gtk.OS.<clinit>(OS.java:19) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.createDisplay(Display.java:397) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.create(Display.java:391) at org.eclipse.swt.graphics.Device.<init>(Device.java:103) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.<init>(Display.java:277) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.<init>(Display.java:273) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.run(Workbench.java:1221) at org.eclipse.core.internal.boot.InternalBootLoader.run(InternalBootLoader.java:77 5) at org.eclipse.core.boot.BootLoader.run(BootLoader.java:462) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method) at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:247) at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:703) at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:539) These are the versions of pango I have installed: [kevin@localhost kevin]$ rpm -qa | grep pango pango-1.0.4-1mdk libpango1.0_0-devel-1.0.4-1mdk libpango1.0_0-1.0.4-1mdk Doing a search on google did not show anything. It appears there is a missing symbol in pango that is not on my machine. Any ideas? Thanks, Kevin [kevin@localhost kevin]$