Mouse Pain

[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).

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"