steppenwolf1984 Posted September 3, 2005 Report Share Posted September 3, 2005 Tested Suse 9.2 on a new laptop. Installs fine, looks good. Then using a touch pad mouse had the cursor zooming all over the screen and opening everything it got near. Went to K Control Center. Tried to make a heavier "mouse" with little or no result. Ive loaded it up before on my home PC and its always simple and configures everything right out of the box. But on this laptop? It was Steroid Mouse and a bizarre soundcard problem that produced a record skipping effect until I had to shut the thing down, and thought of shooting it. Upon installing Kubuntu, Fedora and trying Mepis, I saw no evidence of this hyper mouse and windows running amok. This happen to anyone else? If so, why does it happen? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steppenwolf1984 Posted September 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 15, 2005 Guess not.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted September 15, 2005 Report Share Posted September 15, 2005 Did you use with an external mouse as well? This would rule out whether it just affected the touch-pad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steppenwolf1984 Posted September 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 15, 2005 Ill try if I load it up again, but the mouse for the laptop is a recent addition to the family. You may have a point, but the touch pad has been fine with nearly every other distro.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phunni Posted September 15, 2005 Report Share Posted September 15, 2005 You don't happen to have a KVM switch do you...? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted September 15, 2005 Report Share Posted September 15, 2005 The only other thought I had was whether it required any updates. They may have sorted the touch-pad out if it was known to be buggy straight from the CD install. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willie Posted September 15, 2005 Report Share Posted September 15, 2005 I had the same with my trackpoint of my IBM R31 with Suse en Mandriva 2005 LE. With Mandriva 10.0 everything worked fine. It has todo with KLaptop, since dat is removed it is working fine. Willie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steppenwolf1984 Posted September 18, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 18, 2005 SOLVED What was going wrong with Suse Installs was that I didnt choose INSTALL with NO APIC(?!), the second choice on the install menu. I saw a note somewhere about installing without APCIA or whatever letters it was, when installin on a laptop.....and then? it runs lightening fast (relative to Fedora) no mouse problems and sound out of the box including autoplaying of audio cd....course anything DVD or MP3 will take the usual tweaks and codecs. Strange though, that SUSE doesnt automatically install shadowutils and slocate? no locate command at all...and updatedb produces a puzzled , HUH? till you add some pkgs....hmnn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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