Re: Mouse problem in 8.0 setup [was: Changed Monitors -- Scrambled Video - Reset?]
Couldn't see how to break out to the command line, so I am restarting the SuSE 8.0 install using "Safe" and low resolution video settings. Video display is OK so far ... mouse is unrecognized. It is a ps/2 mouse that connects via a board that attaches to the mobo via a flat cable -- and provides connectors for IR, Mouse, & two USB's on the back. (if I recall it is a Tekram mobo running SiS 530) Tried to run the Test feature to ID the mouse manually but found nothing ... and when I tried the USB mouse option it froze the installer and I have had to do a cold reboot. Went into BIOS and turned off USB, lowered the Printer setting to "normal". Got back to the Mouse screen and tried: Plug-and-play mice - (ttyS0-COM1) Plug-and-play mice - (ttyS1-COM2) Intelli/Wheel mouse (aux port) Then got distracted for a couple of minutes and turned around to discover that the installer had frozen again ... is there a time-out feature somewhere in YaST causing this? Or does the selection of the wrong mouse to test cause it? Thanks! doc
doc wrote:
Brought my PC home from work to try and dubug some SuSE 8.0 setup bugs and am using a much lesser monitor.
Now I see triples of the display side by side, all of them in tiny resolution and almost unreadable.
Linux Failsafe presents the same defective video display.
Question: What is the best way to reset the video setting to generic VGA, please?
As root from command line, sax2.
Fred
Just tried again ... tested only "PS/2 mouse (Aux-port)", since my mouse is a ps/2, and once again this locked up the PC within a matter of seconds. Any ideas where I should start looking for the solution, please? One would think that a ps/2 mouse would be pretty simple to handle these days. I fear that this may be a SiS530 related conflict, or perhaps due to the little IR-Mouse-USB adapter? Thanks! doc
Tried to run the Test feature to ID the mouse manually but found nothing ... and when I tried the USB mouse option it froze the installer and I have had to do a cold reboot.
Went into BIOS and turned off USB, lowered the Printer setting to "normal".
Got back to the Mouse screen and tried: Plug-and-play mice - (ttyS0-COM1) Plug-and-play mice - (ttyS1-COM2) Intelli/Wheel mouse (aux port)
Then got distracted for a couple of minutes and turned around to discover that the installer had frozen again ... is there a time-out feature somewhere in YaST causing this? Or does the selection of the wrong mouse to test cause it?
Thanks! doc
I am having difficulty figuring out how to break out of the SuSE 8.0 install into a command line so that I may try to force it to recognize my mouse. I get to the x install screen where there are selections for Linux, Linux Safe, Windows, and something else. There is a "Text Mode" option at the bottom but I think I tried that together with Linux Safe and still remained inside the YaST x mode. Help, please? Thanks! doc
On Friday 24 May 2002 10:36 pm, doc wrote:
I am having difficulty figuring out how to break out of the SuSE 8.0 install into a command line so that I may try to force it to recognize my mouse.
I get to the x install screen where there are selections for Linux, Linux Safe, Windows, and something else.
There is a "Text Mode" option at the bottom but I think I tried that together with Linux Safe and still remained inside the YaST x mode.
Help, please?
Thanks! doc
From X-Windows, enter ctrl-alt-F1 through ctl-alt-F6 to get to a virtual terminal where you can log on to a console session. To get back to X, from the console enter alt-F7. X runs on the first available console after the virtual consoles, which are ttsy1 - ttsy6. man console will give more information. -ronc -- 8:03am up 4 days, 21:47, 1 user, load average: 0.13, 0.15, 0.07
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