RogerThat

Hello gang,

Hate to be a noob here (but I am, you were one once too), anyways, did an install on a home server (a gateway machine) and during the install I can use the mouse, everything works fine until it reboots after install and then the usb ports for the mouse do not work. No usb mouse that I own will work (I have tried logitech, microsoft, serial, ps/2... nada. I checked the bios, everything seems to be in order (otherwise you would assume that the mouse would not work during install).

I am wondering if it is the version that I am using, if I maybe have a bad copy? Any thoughts?

My problem lies in the fact that I am new to linux, so navigation and file updates (drivers etc...) is greek.

Flatline

Have you tried enabling/disabling acpi or setting noapic (a likely culprit if this is a problem with an interrupt problem) in your bootloader configuration? The file would be /etc/lilo.conf by default in Mandrake.

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Flatline

You could also try running mousedrake from a terminal.

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RogerThat

As I am a complete noob, I know how to get into the terminal, but as far as lilo etc goes, is there a straight forward was of enabling/disabling acpi or setting noapic? (would I do that during setup?)

Flatline

You can do it during setup; there's also a really easy way to do it in the Mandrake Control Center (they're literally checkboxes there). MCC could be a bit tough to navigate without a mouse, so if you don't want to try that, you can look for a line in your /etc/lilo.conf file with append= at the beginning. You can add noapic or acpi=off or acpi=on to that line and save the file, then run "lilo -v". Just make sure that the line you're changing is your default boot image (usually just named "linux" in Mandrake).

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dylunio

Remember to run as root in the terminal after you edit your /etc/lilo.conf

dylunio

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jeremy1701

If you scroll down about six posts, you'll find this one:

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/topic-35681.html

I think it's a solution.
Jeremy aka Ringo.

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RogerThat

It turns out that anything above standard security causes my mouse to not function. Any USB device actually, so my question is this. I am trying to set this up as a server, how do I have it be secure while being able to use my mouse?

dylunio

There are ways of seting up servers so that they are secure without haveing the paranoid setting, apache has a part for confuguring the security of apache, samba has a file for configuring security, etc.

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swemic

Hmm! Why use X when you are about to use it as a secure server?
I don't mean to be rude, but, if you are going to use it as a server, usually you want all memory and processor time to be allocated to your server software, not to any graphical interface.
If it is for easy admin, you should try www.webmin.com as an alternativ admin interface.