Mandrake 10.1 Mouse resets after boot

jimb0456 · 11-30-2005, 04:54 PM

Mandrake 10.1 On Dell Poweredge 1800
Mouse does not work
I do a Ctrl Alt f2 Run MCC Set mouse to PS2 - Other - Microsoft Explorer.
Ctl Alt F7 to get Back to Gnome. Mouse works fine till I reboot
where I have to do this all over again. What is not saving my config?

Jimbo

halvy · 12-01-2005, 02:37 AM

i don't know why the program your using to change your settings is not saving them.

go into /etc/X11/xf86config

or xf86config-4

or xorg.conf ...

one of those is your 'main' config settings for X (graphical and hardware items).

make sure you make copies of whatever you do BEFORE you edit and save, just in case you 'mess up' and make things worse ;)

mbourne · 12-01-2005, 04:09 AM

I don't know much about this, but do you need to run MMC as root to be able to save the settings? I'm thinking it could be file permissions...

halvy · 12-01-2005, 04:51 AM

i'v not used mandy in quite a while.

if u mean the control center, then no, you don't need to do that to edit the config files.

just pull them up with your favorite editor.

permissions SHOULD not be a prob if you are root.

good luck, keep us abreast. :)