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?
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