mouse problems with mandrake 8.0

[douceur]

For quite a long time, I had been running Mandrake 7.2 on my laptop (IBM Thinkpad 760e) and everything worked fine. Just yesterday, I started upgrading to 8.0. During the install, I realized that I couldn't move the cursor with my mouse. Despite that, I continued with the upgrade using only the keyboard. When it finished & booted into Linux, the cursor still wouldn't move. I tried reinstalling it, but I had the same problem. By the way, I'm using that little red eraser sort of thing in the middle of the keyboard for my mouse. Any help would be appreciated.

[Nameless]

try an xf86config - i had the same problem when i first installed slackware 7.1 and that fixed it.

[Choozo]

When you say 'upgrade', do you mean that you selected the Upgrade option when installing, or did you do a fresh install (reformatting partitions)?

The reason I ask is that not many people have made a 100% successful upgrade of Mandrake 7.x to 8.0 without doing a clean install.

Cheers :)

[douceur]

I meant I chose upgrade. But I also said, maybe not clearly enough, that I tried a full install afterwards. I'll try the xf86config & see if that works.

[douceur]

I just tried xf86config & that didn't work. The mouse works fine in Windows, so I know it's something with Mandrake. Any other suggestions?

[Glamdring]

I have exactly the same problem. My mouse doesnt work when Mandrake 8 (KDE) is running. Works fine when I boot into WinMe. I installed the Generic PS2/Wheelmouse driver during install (clean including partion format). Mandrake seemed to see the mouse fine, I could see the white test box light for both left and right mouse buttons and the whell movement indicator worked also. Once Mandrake boots it wont work though. :mad: