Re: [Sheflug] Re:the newbie is back

[Matthew John Palmer <nospam [at] uow.edu.au>]

On Mon, 29 May 2000, [iso-8859-1] José Luis Gómez Dans wrote:

> > of disk one from some kind person. So thing is the only version I have to
> > hand is a freebie of corel linux which went in like a rat up a drainpipe
> 
> 	Is this a good or a bad thing? X-)

I think good.  Not sure though.  Ask a native.

> > does'nt seem to like my mouse though sometimes recognised sometimes not.
> 
> 	When I had corel installed, I experienced the same problems.
> Apparently, it builds a new XF86Config file every time you boot up.

No it doesn't.  It just tries to remake a thousand or so symlinks, and the
/dev/mouse one is one it doesn't do too well on.

To fix: edit /etc/X11/XF86Config and change the mouse line to your real
pointing device.


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