[plug] MDK 10.1Comm. USB/Mouse Woes..

[Muskie Teh Otterboi]

Timothy White wrote:

> Muskie Teh Otterboi wrote:
>
>> Basically, my problem is that MDK simply refuses to acknowledge my MS 
>> USB Wheel Mouse Optical 
>
>
> ... Snip ...
>
>> but I'm just wondering why the heck Mandrake's having Problems with 
>> my Mobo.. it's an Nforce2 chipset, BTW.
>>
>> Strangely, Knoppix 3.6 (Thankyou, Atomic Mag!) Makes my mouse work 
>> perfectly, But produces yet another flaw: X Autodetects my Monitor 
>> V/H Rates wrong and when it initialises, the Screen is B0rked.
>
>
> Read the knoppix-cheatcodes for some boot time settings
> e.g. 'knoppix wheelmouse xvrefresh=60 xhrefresh=80'
>
> which will give you a 60Hz Vertical refresh and 80kHz Horizontal 
> Refresh. If that still doesn't work (even after playing with the 
> numbers) then boot with
>
> 'knoppix wheelmouse 2'
>
> which will give you no X but will allow you to try and find out what 
> your mouse is and what drivers you need.
> BTW, if you can get knoppix to boot with X then why not install it as 
> it is basically Debian Testing with some unofficial but publicly 
> available packages.
>
>> You know, for some strange reason, i've had But ONE single problem 
>> with linux, whatever distribution it decided to be (Debian wouldn't 
>> start X,
>
>
> If you have a fairly new graphics card then you probably will have to 
> get your hands dirty unless you don't mind a plain VGA. This probably 
> shouldn't have happened though, when Debian installs it asks questions 
> about card and monitor and in my experience it usually Just Works even 
> if not optimally. Try getting the settings from Knoppix or Mandrake. 
> Do you have a rare/odd/extremely new graphics card or monitor?
> Tim
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1: I prefer Mandrake. Much Nicer people around the IRC channels :P
2: My Videocard is just a Plain ol' Radeon 9100. Linux drivers for both 
NForce2 Chipset Mobos and Radeons are available at their respective 
sites. I have full 3d Accelleration (I play a mean UT2k4) under 
Mandrake, its just that I can't get my Mouse to work! XD

Muskie