Hi Tor Well I have tried both with no luck; FDISK /MBR using a newly generated WinME boot disk produced the same outcome. I think the original MBR has been superseded several times with my re-installing SuSE to try and get the mouse working. So don't know where to go from here, but at least I can get into WinME with a Diskette, so what the hell if I can get Linux working properly. But it would be nice to get this booting fixed. Secondly I managed to edit /etc/X11/XF8Config, somewhat difficult without a mouse and not knowing the keyboard commands, but following the restart of X I was presented with a text login screen as apposed to the GUI. This is where I call for help not knowing enough about Linux. Where can I find a list of commands, DIR and CD seem universal but what of COPY and MKDIR (haven't tried this one)? -----Original Message----- From: Tor Sigurdsson [mailto:tosi@orku.net] Sent: 26 April 2002 23:31 To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] SuSE v8 Booting WinME & Mouse Problems -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, keith (föstudagur 26. apríl 2002 22:16)
Hi all
Sorry but here comes another new Linux user and I have two problems.
Don't be sorry about that :) New users are always welcome, and even the experts have problems on occations :-)
The first, I loaded SuSE version 8 Personal on my system running Windows
ME
and unfortunately I can now not boot Win ME unless I use a floppy disc. Using the Lilo menu just produces a screen flicker and drops back to the menu. Because of the next problem I have tried to re-install SuSE on four occasions so guess trying Lilo -u/dev/hda, which I have tried, is not going to restore the original boot block is not going to work.
Boot off of a DOS floppy disk, and type in ( in a DOS prompt ): FDISK /MBR Which fixes your master boot record. ( It also breaks the Lilo boot record, so you better have a copy of that beforehand, f.ex. with a linux boot diskette - - see the SuSE manuals about that, I'm not lucky enough to have SuSE 8.0 yet, so any directions from my 7.3 system might be misdirections on SuSE 8... )
Secondly I am using a Logitech cordless keyboard and mouse. During the installation SuSE used the following mouse driver, Intelli/Wheelmouse (Aux-Port), without problem but after re-booting the mouse no longer
works.
The auto detect reports the same mouse has been found but the mouse refuses to work. I managed to get into Xterm-2 but although this also shows the Intelli/Wheelmouse (Aux-port) there seems to be no way of making it work.
Can anyone suggestions gratefully received.
Edit the file /etc/X11/XF86Config Change the following section: Section "InputDevice" Driver "mouse" So that: Option "Device" "whatever..." becomes: Option "Device" "/dev/usbmouse" and Option "Protocol" "whatever..." becomes: Option "Protocol" "imps/2" Then when you have saved the new version ( always take a backup of important files first before editing them :) restart X by pressing CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE Have fun :) - -tosi
Regards Keith Jacobs baggarley@one-name.org Member of East Surrey & London & North Middlesex Family History Societies and the Guild of One-Name Studies For more information see www.maestrocompserv.co.uk/baggarley
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