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ravuya:
This operating system is not exactly endearing itself to me.

Let's look through the stress I've had trying to get Mandrake 8.2 to work properly with a serial mouse and now a PS/2 mouse:

[*]I installed Mandrake 7. Mouse support worked great (this is a serial mouse). Got rid of it. Not the newest version.[*]I got the Mandrake 8.2 installer disc, and ran the installer. Mouse worked fine. Installed Mandrake 8.2.[*]Restarted into Mandrake 8.2 for the first time. Mouse was incredibly laggy. (I moved the mouse, and then the cursor waited for 5-11 seconds and then seemed to jump randomly across the screen).[*]Went off and got a PS/2 cable for my motherboard (leads from the PS2MOUSE pins on the mobo to a PS/2 port. Took the opportunity to pick up a PS/2 mouse with scroll wheel.[*]Started up Mandrake 8.2 with the PS/2 cord and mouse installed. Mouse does not respond to movement. Restarted.[*]Started up again. Now the keyboard doesn't work. Went into the Mandrake 7 installer. Mouse and keyboard did not work.[*]Went over into the Mandrake 8.2 installer. Keyboard works, mouse does not respond (buttons or movement).
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I'm at my wit's end. Does anyone have any kind of solution for this kind of problem? Should I try a different distribution?

choasmaster:
give redhat7.3 a go, it even works with those optical mice from the microsloth or if you said you changed the mouse, you have to tell it so

choasmaster:
that can involve playing with XFree86's config file.  im assuming that your using olny the graphical based, like a login manager and such

ravuya:
Stupid me. I got the wrong PS/2 cord for my motherboard (too many holes, not enough pins). I'll have to go pick up a different one  :(

Hopefully it will work.  

choasmaster:
sounds like a monitor cable i had to "fix"

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