Subject: Re: G4 and USB mouse partii
From: Dan Burcaw (dburcaw@terraplex.com)
Date: Mon Jan 17 2000 - 18:22:21 MST
You have to rerun "mouseconfig" per the isntructions, before it will work.
Just installing the new version will not fix your mouse.
> Hi, I'm still trying to sort out my mouse under xwindows. I have a
> 350mhz G4, with
> a G3 USB mouse. I've installed everything fine, including the new kernel (later
> than the one that came with champion server 1.1). I read the
> instructions on the
> yellowdoglinux website about the problem with the USB mouse, and I downloaded
> mouseconfig 4.0-1a.ppc.rpm
> (ftp://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/software/mouseconfig/mouseconfig-4.0-1a.ppc.rpm)
> to a zip disk,. I then booted into linux, mounted the zip disk, and ran this:
>
> rpm -i mouseconfig-4.0-1a.ppc.rpm
>
> I think it installed it, but yet when I go into xwindows I still can't
> move my
> mouse.(incidentally, it starts up Gnome and Enlightenment. it used to
> start up KDE
> when it was set to start automatically). Does anyone know whether I am doing
> something wrong? How does mouseconfig change the kernel, when the kernel
> is in my
> Mac OS (9-hfs+) partition?Could it be that I am using a G3 USB mouse?
> Any help is
> much appreciated. Tom.
>
>
Regards,
Dan
Terra Soft Solutions, Inc.
Yellow Dog Linux
"The Ultimate Companion for a Dedicated Server"
http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/
Black Lab Linux
Advanced Workstations and Parallel Solutions
http://www.blacklablinux.com/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2a24 : Tue Feb 01 2000 - 17:50:57 MST