Hey, I have a 5 button optical mouse (made by microsoft). I couldn't find my mouse in the list of mouses on my Drake control center, so I picked a 2 button mouse with scroll. I didn't notice any changes and I thought it just didn't work. Later I booted into Linux and my mouse doesn't work now. X is started by default, so any clue how to get it to work again? I need my mouse to configure my mouse settings Unless theres a command to do it (I'd need to get out of X though).

Any help would be great.

Ah. The mistery of the dissapearing mouse. I have had this problem on my desktop more times than I can count. It's specific to Mandrake, and as far as I could tell, my desktop. Now, are you running ti as USB? You might want to try that; or if you are, make it PS/2 (with the adapter).

On to the fix:

1) use your windows key to bring up the k menu (or gnome menu.... I run KDE, so I don't know how things work in gnome)
2) use arrow keys to get to the Mandrake Control Center.
3) from there, u can use the tab key and arrow keys to navigate.

Well, if you don't get it working, I know you can edit u're XF86Config.

If you need more details, ask me, and I'll try to write up a step by step for whatever desktop you are running.

Thanks for the suggestion, but it didn't work I got as far as the Mandrake control center but I couldn't use the Tab/arrow keys to navigate any further.

Guess this gives me a excuse though to un-install Mandrake and install Slackware

Don't let something like that stop you or you'll never get things working with slack.

Not that you shouldn't switch, but you should fix this first so you can learn how to edit files.

Yeah true, its not like whenever I run into a problem I re-install though, this kinda just gives me a better reason (in my opinion) to switch.

I'm sure I'll run into problems on Slackware (almost guaranteed ) and I'll do my best to fix them.

Have u tried the USB/PS2 idea?