Re: [LUG] RE: Mandrake 8.1 Mouse

[kevin bailey <kev.bailey@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Browning wrote:
> | "Quanta plus" looks like the kind of HTML editing tool I could
> | come to love, if I'm ever mad enough to try writing substantial
> | amounts of HTML (unlikely).
> | 


i tried out most current GPL HTML editors and found amaya to be the best 
- it is written by the www.w3.org lot and produces clean xhtml - it's a 
bit clunky but is more wysiwyg than most others,

kev


























> Reserves comment.
>
> ...Oh, go on then - ``vi is the *only* html editing tool''
>
>  
> | The device files look okay for the mouse - I've run 'gpm' and
> | 'mev' against the relevant com port and nothing - zilch - just a
> | dead mouse.
> | 
> | mouseconfig runs but nothing happens when I try and test it.
> | 
> | Any idea what I might have done? Sure it is simple, but it is
> | eluding me today.
>
>
> Ah! I have had exactly this problem a couple of times under RedHats 6
> through 7 respectively.  What is really annoying is that one .release
> will be fine while another is inexplicably not.  The problem is often
> discussed in USENETland and seems to be isolated to RH-based distros.
> If you want Mandrake 8.2 download I have a copy lying around here, let
> me know.  Here, however, is your holy grail:
>
> Shut down the machine entirely and wait a few seconds.  Start her up
> again _holding_down_ the left hand mouse button for the duration of the
> boot procedure.  Run mouseconfig now - amazing. (it will work with the
> --kickstart option if you are a lazybones)
>
> I can remember someone explaining why this works on comp.os.linux.redhat
> about a year ago but have forgotten - sorry about that.
>
> I eventually got fed up with that solution, however and went to Dixons
> and bought the most bog-standard looking PS2 mouse I could find; no
> problems since.
>
> HTH. MB
>
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