mouse weirdness [and other strange tales]

[Brian Densmore]

I have always found that sound works better if compiled into the kernel.
Generally I have problems with sound with "stock" kernels, mainly
because 
I have a bunch of old and/or cheap soundcards.

Well, I am installing gentoo at home. The latest build has some problems
if you take the
"fast" option [some files and directories missing, like the timezone
files]. So far though
it looks good, good enough that I may abandon my new distro idea and
repackage gentoo.

Also, I have given up on my new distro for the time being. LFS doesn't
seem to be the way to
go. I am downloading trustix Linux to overwrite my LFS disk. I learned a
lot from this 
adventure though.

And no I had a lousy weekend, but thanks for asking. I won't go into
details, lest I be called whiny too. ;')

I'll post my take on KDE 3 when I get it running tonight tomorrow.

Peace and harmony,
Brian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marvin Bellamy [mailto:Marvin.Bellamy at innovision.com]
> Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 9:36 AM
> To: kclug at kclug.org
> Subject: Re: mouse wierdness
> 
> 
> I just bought a USB mouse with wheel support (same setup as you), and 
> after the first couple boots, my mouse no longer works.  I'll have to 
> see if your solution works for me.  Has anyone gotten sound 
> to work with 
> Mandrake8.1?  I'm using the alsa sound modules, but the steps 
> I've used 
> on Slackware and Redhat don't work.  I don't have to recompile sound 
> support into the kernel, do I?
> 
> J. Eric Gilliland wrote:
> 
> >I hope you all had a good weekend.  I wanted to report
> >some mouse wierdness I experienced.  I am running a
> >dual boot system with Win XP and Mandrake 8.1.  I have
> >a Kensington wheel mouse, but I had never been aboe to
> >get the wheel working. Whenever I used mousedrake the
> >mouse just freaked and I would have to reinstall the
> >mouse as a standard PS2 mouse with no wheel support. 
> >Well, yesterday while booting manrake the hardware
> >detector started and detected my mouse.  I selected
> >generic PS2 wheel mouse from the list and now the
> >wheel mouse worked perfectly in linux (which is good,
> >'cause I need it for Quake 3!).  ANy idea why the
> >hardware detector waited so long to detect my mouse? 
> >It works now, but I am curious.
> >
> >Thanks for the time,
> >
> >Eric Gilliland
> >
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