83mercedes Posted March 17, 2004 Report Share Posted March 17, 2004 Booted to the CD1, setup starts, but mouse don't work at all. (Even after I select the mouse type in the install). So I quit the install. Anyone have ideas? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarissi Posted March 17, 2004 Report Share Posted March 17, 2004 Are you using an Nforce mobo chipset???????? I have a similar problem: won't detect my USB local printer. As to the mouse, put it on the PS/2 mouse port. That is what it is for........ :D It seems USB device detection is non-existant at this point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
83mercedes Posted March 17, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2004 Motherboard is an MSI, MS-6758 with Intel 875P chipset. How can I connect my nice USB wheel mouse to a PS-2 mouse port? Do I have to buy an adapter? No thanks, especially if there is no USB device detection! That's frickin ridiculous! Are you telling me my USB printer won't work either? Again, what's so great about this release? Oh, must be that wonderful new kernel, eh? Thanks for the reply. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoopy Posted March 17, 2004 Report Share Posted March 17, 2004 The USB detection worked great for me. My devices: USB wheel mouse --> onboard USB 1 port and connected to my USB 2 card are: External harddrive printer scanner CF card reader My system is quite different tho, AMD and I booted off CD2 instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
83mercedes Posted March 17, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2004 I KNEW I should have bought another AMD!!! I KNEW it!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thinkliberty Posted March 17, 2004 Report Share Posted March 17, 2004 I have an nforce2 that my USB mouse doesn't work with... if you download a kernel.org kernel and compile it yourself the mouse will work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
83mercedes Posted March 17, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2004 Ok, so what I need to do is install Mandrake 10 with no mouse, then compile my own kernel so I can have my mouse again. Am I the only one? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted March 17, 2004 Report Share Posted March 17, 2004 I KNEW I should have bought another AMD!!!I KNEW it!!! yep :( What's the bios look like? plugNplay off? Is this the same sys you run suse on? Have you unplugged all usb except the mouse? My usb>ps/2 adapter came with the mouse. Switched to it during 9.1 and never looked back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted March 17, 2004 Report Share Posted March 17, 2004 Ok, so what I need to do is install Mandrake 10 with no mouse, then compile my own kernel so I can have my mouse again.Am I the only one? compile for what? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
83mercedes Posted March 17, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2004 Hi bvc, I had to give SuSe up, when I got this new machine, for some reason SuSE didn't like this machine, it ran slow and funky and wouldnt always work right. I am running Debian sarge (from a Knoppix HD install) and Mandrake 9.2, and the mouse and printer/scanner work fine with these two distributions. I was referring to the post (By thinkliberty) that said if I conpiled my own kernel, my mouse would work. I will check bios plugnplay, do you really think that would matter? And no I have not unplugged all other USBs... Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted March 17, 2004 Report Share Posted March 17, 2004 I will check bios plugnplay, do you really think that would matter? could, especially with kernel-2.6/hotplug/usb.....it is the closest thing to plugNplay linux has ATM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
83mercedes Posted March 17, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2004 Well, I cannot believe this. I found an old ps2 mouse, plugged it in, and did the upgrade from 9.2 to 10. Now, I unplug the ps2 mouse, and my USB mouse is working. Very puzzling. Cool, but puzzling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted March 17, 2004 Report Share Posted March 17, 2004 (edited) good....but not really. Many times install advice willl be to do whatever you have to just to get through it. Some things may then work at first boot or can then usually easily be configured. Seen it many times......glad it's the case again! Edited March 17, 2004 by bvc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
83mercedes Posted March 17, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2004 Thanks, I think this 10 is really pretty cool, got the kernel-source and then nvidia drivers installed, printer is good, etc. One thing is XMMS no longer plays my mp3's, but Noatun does. hmmm.... no biggie I guess. Overall it seems (to me) a little faster than 9.2, do you agree? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted March 17, 2004 Report Share Posted March 17, 2004 One thing is XMMS no longer plays my mp3's, but Noatun does.hmmm.... no biggie I guess. Overall it seems (to me) a little faster than 9.2, do you agree? others have had the xmms prob. There's a thread active today actually. Remove soundwrapper from the short cut command. Faster? I don't know. I went from 9.2rc2>9.2 via cooker>stayed cooker running 2.6 so I really don't recall what 9.2 was like. KDE3.2 is faster. Kernel? eh? not really, IMO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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