I'm having problem with Sax, more specifically, Sax 2. I just installed 7.3 and when I go in to change my display settings my mouse gets screwed up and I can't use it...even though I don't touch the mouse settings. I can't use my keyboard either, even though I don't make any changes to the keyboard settings. The only way "I know" how to get the settings back is to reinstall. Is there another way? Thanks, Tom Tom Nielsen Neuro Logic Systems 805.389.5435 x18 www.neuro-logic.com
There should be a backup made of the XF86Config file in /etc/X11 of the previous file. If not then we can go from there. You should never reinstall Linux over a mouse..or really anything short of hardware failure. Most everything is fixable. * Tom Nielsen (tom@neuro-logic.com) [020212 13:53]: ->I'm having problem with Sax, more specifically, Sax 2. -> ->I just installed 7.3 and when I go in to change my display settings my mouse ->gets screwed up and I can't use it...even though I don't touch the mouse ->settings. I can't use my keyboard either, even though I don't make any ->changes to the keyboard settings. -> ->The only way "I know" how to get the settings back is to reinstall. Is there ->another way? -> ->Thanks, ->Tom -> ->Tom Nielsen ->Neuro Logic Systems ->805.389.5435 x18 ->www.neuro-logic.com -----=====-----=====-----=====-----=====----- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org -----=====-----=====-----=====-----=====----- "I've never been quarantined. But the more I look around the more I think it might not be a bad thing." -JC
Too late. Already reinstalled. Since this is a brand new install, I figured it's easier to reinstall than to mess with the issue. I still find it strange that Sax would cause these problems. One other question...I want to use Wine, how do I, or can I, mount an ntfs drive to Linux? Thanks, Tom -----Original Message----- From: Ben Rosenberg [mailto:ben@whack.org] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 2:08 PM To: SLE Subject: Re: [SLE] Sax'ual problems.. There should be a backup made of the XF86Config file in /etc/X11 of the previous file. If not then we can go from there. You should never reinstall Linux over a mouse..or really anything short of hardware failure. Most everything is fixable. * Tom Nielsen (tom@neuro-logic.com) [020212 13:53]: ->I'm having problem with Sax, more specifically, Sax 2. -> ->I just installed 7.3 and when I go in to change my display settings my mouse ->gets screwed up and I can't use it...even though I don't touch the mouse ->settings. I can't use my keyboard either, even though I don't make any ->changes to the keyboard settings. -> ->The only way "I know" how to get the settings back is to reinstall. Is there ->another way? -> ->Thanks, ->Tom -> ->Tom Nielsen ->Neuro Logic Systems ->805.389.5435 x18 ->www.neuro-logic.com -----=====-----=====-----=====-----=====----- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org -----=====-----=====-----=====-----=====----- "I've never been quarantined. But the more I look around the more I think it might not be a bad thing." -JC -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq and the archives at http://lists.suse.com
On Tue, 2002-02-12 at 23:16, Tom Nielsen wrote:
Too late. Already reinstalled. Since this is a brand new install, I figured it's easier to reinstall than to mess with the issue. I still find it strange that Sax would cause these problems.
One other question...I want to use Wine, how do I, or can I, mount an ntfs drive to Linux?
Thanks, Tom
Suse should automatically detect any windows drives you have, fat32 or ntfs, and make them available in /windows/? or similar. If not, just add a line to /etc/fstab like the one below: /dev/hda1 /windows/C ntfs ro,noauto,user,umask=022 0 0 just make sure /windows/C exists as a directory, then type mount /windows/C NTFS write support is experimental in Linux, and i dont know if Suse supports it with the default kernel - you may need to recompile. Ewan
->Too late. Already reinstalled. Since this is a brand new install, ->I figured it's easier to reinstall than to mess with the issue. Well, don't do that. :) We'll break you of your habits yet .. my young Jedi. :) The easy thing to do is to email the list...SOMEone will know how to fix it... :) ->I still find it strange that Sax would cause these problems. SaX2 isn't perfect, but it does work pretty well. If your using nVidia's binary only driver I've seen this happen. Which is why I ALWAYS do a cp /etc/X11/XF86Config /etc/X11/XF86Config.orig before I make changes. Heck I do that with most of /etc once I have a running system just so I can always back out of a change. ->One other question...I want to use Wine, how do I, or can I, mount an ntfs ->drive to Linux? The only Wine that I use is what comes with the CrossOver plugin for QT and Shockwave from Codeweavers. I believe 9-10 times that a Linux native solution should be found before running Win programs under Linux. I know .. I know.. "Your running QT and Wine"...well. I'm addicted to movies and I love trailers. Most of the time they don't come in RM format..so such is life. As for mounting NTFS slices..SuSE should have done this when you did the fresh install of 7.3. You can't write to the slices but you can read them just fine. I would take a look as your normal user to see if the icons aren't already there on your desktop. I would also look at /etc/fstab to see if it's reference in there. It should be. If not we can go from there...and I'm sure someone can help with it. I've not run Windows in so long I don't know any of the options to get it to work if it has to be done by hand. Cheers! -----=====-----=====-----=====-----=====----- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org -----=====-----=====-----=====-----=====----- "I've never been quarantined. But the more I look around the more I think it might not be a bad thing." -JC
Tom, I know this is late, but I just saw the thread when I sorted for something else... I, too, have been warned to avoid writing to NTFS partitions from Linux. On my work laptop, I created a small FAT32 partition that I use for transfers and current editing/writing. When necessary, I boot into WinNT and copy stuff from the FAT32 partition to the NTFS partition... and to work in FrameMaker. If you use VMWare (I don't), you won't have the problem because it will be Windoze writing to your NTFS partition. Not sure how it works in WINE... If I could just figure out how to get KWord to do some of the stuff it claims (but which is just empty headings in the KWord guide/help) then I could abandon Windows completely. Dream on. :-) As for SaX/SaX2, I have always had (since SuSE 5.x) the same problem you describe. Setting video stuff or other X stuff in SaX would cause the mouse to suddenly lose its little mind, even before exiting from SaX. The mouse pointer would develop a sudden irrational fear of the middle of the screen, preferring to skim around the exterior edges, opening menus in random ways, independent of mouse movement or mouse clicks. If I recall correctly, this occurs with SaX2, or with SaX1 when invoked from a GUI desktop. If I boot into console and run the text-based SaX, the mouse-freak problem doesn't always occur. It's pretty reliable, though (mouse-freak, I mean) if X is running. It's not a particular mouse, either. I've had the problem with mice, trackballs and laptop touchpads on several machines, over several SuSE versions. If we knew why you and I experience it, and others don't, maybe we could get SuSE to pay attention and finally fix it. Oh... I never have a problem like that with Red Hat's configurator, but then I'd have to be running Red Hat, which kinda defeats the purpose of buying SuSE, don't it? Cheers, /kevin On Tue, 2002-02-12 at 18:16, Tom Nielsen wrote:
Too late. Already reinstalled. Since this is a brand new install, I figured it's easier to reinstall than to mess with the issue. I still find it strange that Sax would cause these problems.
One other question...I want to use Wine, how do I, or can I, mount an ntfs drive to Linux?
-- Kevin McLauchlan Chrysalis-ITS, Inc. "Ultimate Trust(TM)"
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