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To say my new install went bad is an understatement. Mouse did not work during install which presented huge problems, go thru the install, with a few issues using keyboard (sound card unrecognized), hoping mouse would work afterward. Of course it did not. At one point the install asked for disk 3 to be reinserted (after extras and doc were requested). For some reason the disk could not be read, disk worked before, had to cancel out of that step....
GE optical mouse, PS2. dELL pRECISION 220, Pentium 4, 667Mhz, X86 family 6 model 8 Stepping, 512 Meg, Redhat Enterprise Linux Version 4 for 32-bit x86.
You could click (left and right both would activate if you happening to be hovering) the mouse, but not move the mouse icon.
Not sure what to do at this point, system is pretty much useless.
Any ideas would be appreciated. Should I have used 64 bit install disks? I did some poking and found that most pentium 4's are 32-bit, but could never find out for sure.
Do not use 64-bit install disks if you have a Pentium 4--they are ALL 32-bit.
Not all is lost--this is probably just a problem with your X server configuration. What does your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file look like? You may wish to reconfigure the package from the command-line using rpm.
I had to retype this by hand (comments excluded), as after about an hour of attempting to write to my cdrw via cdrecord... I kept receiving 'Cannot open SCSI driver'. Since I have not mouse, command line is my only option and I am sure there is some additional configuration or mounting or whatever that needs to be done...
I did that, the mouse still is not active. It is actually worse, because now the mouse buttons do not even activate anything. Before if a component had focus and you left or right clicked a menu may popup, the arrow for the mouse pointer, just didn't move or sometimes even display.
http://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/...c/mouse.4.html lists the mouse protocols X.org accepts. If /dev/psaux didn't work, then switch the device back to /dev/input/mice and try switching the protocol to "auto," or to a protocol that supports similar mice to your own.
Well plugging in my dell usb mouse works, so I might just go buy a usb mouse. I have seen many other posts on this issue, none of them seem to be wrapped up very neatly.
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