I have been installing mandrake 10.1 on an ibm 600e laptop (has stickpoint mouse on keyboard)
I'm installing from Cd. Problem I'm having is no mouse after INSTALL. As the install setup is functioning I have a mouse and am using a USB logitech trackball.
So, after the program loads I have no mouse at all. There is of course the mouse pointer on screen but it won't respond to the stickpoint or the mouse. Weird that the trackpoint functions during installation but quits after installed. Reminds me of a interupt conflict in mswindows.
Anyway, I'm new to unix and can't hardly FIND any keys that moves me around onscreen so can't even begin to look for any type of control panel. Can someone with some experience help me with this?If you remove the USB beast does the trackpoint work? Two inputs can be puzzling to an O/S. I have a T22 that works with the pointy stick just fine.Thanks for the reply. No The trackball did not work by itself, to answer the previous question.
I did get it to work though by continueing to TRY the different mouse drivers on each reload. However, during the reload I would get to the page where I can change the drivers for each item and each time the video driver would be the only problem on the chart. I found a video driver that worked within the first couple loads. But after 20 reloads I'm ready to move onto getting the ethernet card and modem to work. Then get the freebsd machine going.
What a great system this is!!! Cool, intuetive and completely open as a source and to learn from.
Also, want to try to ibuntu as well.Correct me if I'm wrong but I didn't think that Mandrake was completely open source.

OpenSUSE, Fedora, VectorLinux, FreeBSD, Ubuntu/Kubuntu and CentOS are though, amongst others.