I'm fairly new to Linux so I want to learn a bit more. I thought I could self teach myself if I used it abit. So I installed Mandrake 9.0 and the install went great. Then I went and booted up Drake and my mouse looked like it didn't work. You could tell it did because the icons changed when I hovered over them. The cursor just stayed in the corner. I thought maybe it was the mouse so I tried another one. The same thing happened. Then I installed it on my Laptop and it worked great. Now I'm left with two things that I can think of that could be causing it. I thought it maybe is my Motherboard or my Graphics Card. My motherboard is an ECS elitegroup K7S5A and my graphics card is a GeForce 4 420 MX 64mb DDR. I also thought maybe if I installed 9.1 it may work but i dont want to spend days downloading it to find out the same thing. Is there maybe something I could do to solve this? Please HELP!

Thanks

from your post i am guessing that you selected a wheel mouse. if you did i think it is not recognised or something. it happened to me. so selected a generic mouse in the menu and then it worked great.
goto control panel and change the mouse type

I've tried it with both a wheel mouse and a non wheel mouse and the same thing happened. I also installed Mandrake multiple times and the same thing happened. I also heard a rumor the Linux doesn't like Nvidia graphics cards that much but I'm not sure if that is true.

I have the same problem as you bros.
I let's you know if somebody helped me.

I downloaded Mandrake 9.1 and tried to see if that fixed my problem and it DID! 9.0 didn't like my graphics card. And Mandrake 9.1 comes with KDE 3.1! I suggest to upgrade.

humm I will try it

thanks

I have found it

First thing to do is
Download the NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4363.run from http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/...86-1.0-4363.run

then go to the folder where you download it and type
sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4363.run

After you got to edit(vi /etc/X11/XF86Config-4) the XF86Config-4 and replace this(INSERT key to make some change)

Driver "nv"
(or Driver "vesa")

with

Driver "nvidia"

In the Module section, make sure you have:

Load "glx"

You should also remove the following lines:

Load "dri"
Load "GLcore"
(copy pasted from the README at Driver "nv"
(or Driver "vesa")

with

Driver "nvidia"

In the Module section, make sure you have:

Load "glx"

You should also remove the following lines:

Load "dri"
Load "GLcore"
After doing the change do

Esc
:wq! #to save and quit
Then restart the Xserver by using startx

This is how I solve the problem. But I notice when I go back to a tty shell by going Ctrl+Atl+# the screen have some trouble to refresh it.