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