I have just installed OpenSuSE 11.4 to my second HD , it boots fine(dual boots w/ Windoze 7) but when I get to the desktop my mouse does not work. I tried my Lenvo corded mouse and my logitech wireless mouse to no avail. Any help is greatly Appreciated. I am running 64 bit Suse on a lenovo desktop k235.
I will try what was in that thread…
Neither mouse works still…
Then run dmesg in a terminal after you connect the mouse and see the output.
There’s also an useful thread here:
does the touchpad work to control the mouse?
if so, open YaST and go Hardware > Hardware Information > Mouse and see
if your mice are correctly identified by the system.
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I’m sorry, it is a desktop PC. I cannot access Yast , my KB and mouse are not working…
On 05/03/2011 03:36 PM, MontiCiski wrote:
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> I’m sorry, it is a desktop PC. I cannot access Yast , my KB and mouse
> are not working…
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did you do this http://tinyurl.com/2ebcf27 before install? if not, do
it now it could easily be that you have a corrupted install disk, and
therefore a damaged install–which is another way of saying: what you
have there is NOT usual at all, in fact it is very unusual, which is
partly why i suggest the following: -
is your keyboard USB? if so try another, and if possible try a
keyboard with a PS1 connector -
are both mice USB? do you have an old one with the old connector you
can try?
NOTE: while it is ok with USB, you should never plug in or unplug the
older styled connectors for the keyboard or mouse…
and, what was the result of you trip to
http://old-en.opensuse.org/Logitech-MX400
and, tell us more about your hardware–perhaps your motherboard or bios
is not compatible with Linux…did the box have an Penguin icon next
to the flying broken window and say something like linux ready, maybe?
is your system listed as good to go on the hardware compatibility list
http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Hardware ?
i read “I have just installed OpenSuSE” to mean neither keyboard nor
mouse every worked correctly, is that correct? even when you tried it
out by running an openSUSE Live CD prior to installing?
have you ever run Linux on this computer?
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It’s so unusual that two different mouses won’t work, that first I’d check for a general usb issue. If you plug in a pendrive or another usb device, does it show correctly - i.e., do you get a notification?
Yes, My Ipod shows up…I’m lost. Can anyone help me?>:(
On 05/04/2011 05:36 AM, MontiCiski wrote:
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> Yes, My Ipod shows up…I’m lost. Can anyone help me?>:(
if you can’t answer my questions i can’t help you.
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You have posted questions about this in so many places it’s ticking me off.
Did your install media pass here
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10573557/11.4_DVD_Install/1_mediacheck.jpg
in one of these other two thread started by the originator:
http://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php?t=459181
http://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php?t=459232
we learn that all was well until a new kernel was installed: so, what
you do @MontiCiski is log a bug with bugzilla, be sure and tell your
hardware and software mix, as well as the fact that this started with
your new kernel (give its number in the bug report–easy to find by
clicking “My Computer”)
and, you might get some questions from the developers and a chance to
beta test the patch…
or, you might want to go back to the previous kernel…
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Back in the early 90’s someone opened my eyes over a real OS. It was linux. And the first distro I used was a ‘Swiss watch’. Well, actuall a ‘German car’, because it was SuSE.
Time passed, and versions 3, 4, 5, 6, and even 7 were OK. I was proud of my desktop. Then, out of the blue, the ‘German car’ was bought by a company from US, which was struggling to avoid banckrupcy - or at least that’s what the info on web said.
Nevertheless, SuSE linux is no more a German car.
So no wonder you can install everything, then use the mouse to click restart, and voila: no more keyboard, no more mouse… almost a Vindoze machine.
On Fri, 01 Jul 2011 21:06:02 +0000, simplemarius wrote:
> Then, out of the blue, the ‘German car’ was bought by a company from US,
> which was struggling to avoid banckrupcy - or at least that’s what the
> info on web said.
The story you read on the web was factually incorrect. Novell wasn’t
struggling to avoid bankruptcy at the time of the SUSE acquisition. They
were looking for a way to become much more forward-looking since the
sales of the flagship NetWare product were slowly declining (mostly due
to a diminishing hardware support base and an increase in the use of
general-purpose servers instead of special-function servers).
> Nevertheless, SuSE linux is no more a German car.
Nonsense. SUSE actually is entirely a German entity again, since the
Attachmate acquisition of Novell. They split SUSE off from Novell as a
separate business unit and have their own executive management team in
Nurenburg.
I’ve used several Linux distributions over the years, and have found SUSE
(Pro and now openSUSE) to be one of the best I’ve ever used. Better
hardware detection, better package availability, and a better community.
Jim
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On 07/01/2011 11:32 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> Nonsense.
not!
> SUSE actually is entirely a German entity again, since the
> Attachmate acquisition of Novell. They split SUSE off from Novell as a
> separate business unit and have their own executive management team in
> Nurenburg.
imo:
and if we are lucky, very lucky, we will return to the reliability,
stability, dependability, predictability and useability of SuSE 9.x in a
year or two…maybe…
sure, those -abilities already exists in the SLE_ products…but,
splitting up the talent in order to produce two distinct brands (one
corporate intended and relatively expensive but aged, and one ‘free’ but
far more shaky and short lived) was a corporate decision made while
looking at the bottom line, and not the wants of the SuSE community of
yore…
i remain hopeful that world class engineering (removed from under the
directions of profit driven Business Majors) will once again roll out
products like they did prior to the MBAs and accountants getting involved.
ymmv
On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 08:08:53 +0000, DenverD wrote:
> and if we are lucky, very lucky, we will return to the reliability,
> stability, dependability, predictability and useability of SuSE 9.x in a
> year or two…maybe…
I used SUSE Pro 9.x myself, and have found that the stability and
usability has increased in that time period.
YMMV (obviously it does - you stayed on a 10.x release for quite some
time after 11.0 was released). Doesn’t mean that (a) everyone had
problems like you did that prevented you from upgrading, and (b) that
everything that Novell did with the product absolutely sucked or was bad
for the project. SUSE was (as I recall) having financial difficulties,
and Novell buying them ensured their survival - as evidenced by the fact
that the company and the openSUSE project are thriving.
Jim
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