Mandrake 10.0 on Compaq Aramda m700 mouse issue

[jeremy1701]

Hello all,

I recently stumbled across an old laptop running WinNT. I immediatly set about to put Linux on it. Mandrake 10.0 D/L Edition installed like a dream. It even had ATI Mobilty drivers and auto detected my card. I was under the impression ATI drivers weren't included with dl edition?

Anyway... I'm sure I'll be asking about a million questions in the next couple of weeks, but here's one right off the bat.

Whenever I resume from suspend mode (APM, no ACPI for some reason), the mouse moves real chopy. For example, it'll be over the start menu, I'll give it a nudge and it won't response immediatly, but when it does respond it's at the top of the screen. Logging out to restart the X server doesn't fix it, but restarting always solves this problem, and the mouse is smooth again. I've tried various settings with the screen resolution, but nothing seems to work. Any ideas?

Thanks everone!
Jeremy

[kkubasik]

ps/2 or usb? and suspend or hibernate?

[jeremy1701]

It's the stick in the keyboard, not an external mouse, and I think it's configured as something like:

any/ ps2

Or something like that. Drat! Too bad I'm at work right now.

I'm not sure if it's suspend or hibernate, but I'm thinking suspend. In power management, there is no hibernate feature anywhere, just susupend. Is there a way I would know?

Thanks,
Jeremy

[kkubasik]

Hibernate actual shuts down the computer, but stores all the contents of the ram on the hard disk, then when you boot back up, it reloads it all. Basicaly, does the computer still draw power? even if its a small amount, then i have no clue, but if you are hibernating, then something is probaly wrong with the section of your disk that stores the data. I dont know how to change this in linux (infact, im not even sure there is a hibernate option standard). I've never run linux on a laptop, so im stumped, i had a similar problem, but i had configured my mouse incorrectly (said it had 3 buttons and a wheel, when only 2 buttons) so yeah, try a few differnt mouse configs (even if they dont make sense) and see if that helps...

[jeremy1701]

The computer is still drawig power, so I think it's in suspend.

That's an excellent suggestion, I will try it out soon and let you know.

Thanks,
Jeremy

[jeremy1701]

By commenting out the line

CHANGE_VT="7"

in the file /etc/sysconfig/suspend, this issue was solved.

Jeremy