Serial scan kills mouse (?!)
 

... you're all so helpful it makes me just wanna ask more questions :)

I use an optical USB Logitech mouse and during Mandrake's boot process, its light flickers and goes off. I cant use it in KDE/etc and Linux refuses to recognise it. The same happened when I was installing Mandrake, when it was entering the second installation stage and probing the serial ports. Could this scan be turning my mouse off? Which bootup option do I change? :)

Thanks in advance

USB optical mouse stop moving !!
 

Hi,

I think that we have the same problem
I've installed Mandrake 9.1 by the end of the install I lost the mouse mouvement.

But also after installing it seem that enter into configuration tools cause also a freeze of the mouse.

I'm using Microsoft Intellimouse Optical on USB port

Any help, thanks

Richard

You'll need to edit the pointer section of your XF86Config(-4) by hand in a text editor.
This Microsoft Intellimouse link is a good start.

thanks very much! :)
I actually fixed the problem by installing a different mandrake kernel :o
The default kernel with mandrake 9 isnt actually too great with handling keyboard input (or mice!) I'm not sure why it _is_ the default ...