Guest Arnie_75 Posted December 15, 2004 Share Posted December 15, 2004 (edited) Hi there, I just tried to install Mandrake 10.1 on my computer (MSI KT6V with VIA KT600 / AthlonXP 2400+ / 1GB RAM / Samung 80GB UDMA-133 / NEC DI-2510A DVD-+RW / MS IntelliMouse optical USB). However, the computer freezes after I choose the language. The installation may also become just really slow because when waiting long enough I can sometimes get to the next point. First thing I noticed is that the USB mouse cannot move anymore. Whe I unplugged it Mandrake installed fine. Si I reconnected it after the installation was complete. However when I opened Mandrakes control-panel the system foze again. :( So is this an incompatibility with my mouse or something else? I also tried another MS optical mouse with the same result. SUSE 9.2 installs and runs fine but for different reasons I don't want to use SUSE. Can anyone help me please? Am a novoice reagrding Linux so please be patient to me ;) Edited December 15, 2004 by Arnie_75 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted December 15, 2004 Share Posted December 15, 2004 Have you tried bios options (usb settings: legacy or not, etc) - try to turn related things off if they are on, and vice versa. Also, things may work if you give the boot command: linux nolapic noapic acpi=off at the F1 screen of the first screen of the installer... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xbob Posted December 16, 2004 Share Posted December 16, 2004 I ran in to this last night, it's an issue with KT/KM 266/400/600 chipsets and when the USB bus is initialized. My 10.1 OE install never started the mouse and hung at disk partitioning as well, so I shut it down and put my mouse on the PS/2 adapter, finished the install and haven't tried to put it back yet. I have a Logitech MX510 and when on PS/2 all buttons are recognized and set to default configuration, but USB is a no go? Odd, but not a deal breaker, although I am sure someone has a fix out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Arnie_75 Posted December 18, 2004 Share Posted December 18, 2004 Thanks to both of you for your answers. However I want to use the mouse with USB so using a PS2-adapter is no choice. I will test the suggestions within the BIOS although I already tried some. If that won't help I will wait for a new release. BTW, is there anywhere a roadmap that will show when new Mandrake releases will be available? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xbob Posted December 18, 2004 Share Posted December 18, 2004 Thanks to both of you for your answers.However I want to use the mouse with USB so using a PS2-adapter is no choice. I will test the suggestions within the BIOS although I already tried some. If that won't help I will wait for a new release. BTW, is there anywhere a roadmap that will show when new Mandrake releases will be available? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I don't know about a roadmap, you might look at the Cooker schedules. Regarding the mouse, how about doing the install with a PS/2 mouse and then switching it to USB? Might have to change your Xorg.conf files, but it should work? I would try it but am hung up waiting for a new processor to be delivered so I won't get to it until next week. Good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Arnie_75 Posted December 18, 2004 Share Posted December 18, 2004 (edited) As I tried to write in my first post (sorry for the bad typing / spelling) I already installed Mandrake without mouse. I connected the USB mouse only when Mandrake had been installed and was running fine. This ssemed to run fine at first. However it froze once I tried to open Mandrakes's config-program (don't know the exact name anymore since I'm back to WinXP now). :( So it seems like there's a more or less big problem regarding Mandrake 10.1 and VIA chipsets together with my Microsoft IntelliMouse optical. I also tried another MS optical mouse but had the same problem :( Edited December 18, 2004 by Arnie_75 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xbob Posted December 19, 2004 Share Posted December 19, 2004 As I tried to write in my first post (sorry for the bad typing / spelling) I already installed Mandrake without mouse. I connected the USB mouse only when Mandrake had been installed and was running fine. This ssemed to run fine at first. However it froze once I tried to open Mandrakes's config-program (don't know the exact name anymore since I'm back to WinXP now). :( So it seems like there's a more or less big problem regarding Mandrake 10.1 and VIA chipsets together with my Microsoft IntelliMouse optical. I also tried another MS optical mouse but had the same problem :( <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It seems you are correct, Mdk 10.1 and VIA USB in general is being problematic for me, if I plug in a USB flash card reader I get a pop up terminal telling me IRQ 21 is disabled and the the GUI hangs. Might be time to try that Gentoo build I was kicking around... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted December 20, 2004 Share Posted December 20, 2004 With this kind of hardware problem it's always worth playing with kernel options (noapic, nolapic, acpi=off , acpi=on) and BIOS settings. BTW, next version of Mandrake - CE due March, OE due April. See here: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/...andrakelinux102 . Will come with KDE 3.3, GNOME 2.8 and OpenOffice 1.1...d'oh. Stupid out-of-sync release cycles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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