Be my Hero

[DwarfBaby]

I have a few questions but do not feel obligated to answer them all. Any answer in part or whole will be greatly appreciated.
1. I have a logitech laser mouse. The company does not support linux. Is their any way to get the middle mouse wheel to work.
2. After I start up KDE and everything is loaded, there is random accessing of the hard drive for about 20 minutes even when the system is idle. Can someone explain this.
3. If anyone can find a lexmark Z42 printer driver well, you would be my hero.

My Current specs:
Suse 7.1 with KDE 2.0.1
Athlon 1 gig 256 ram Geforce 2

Thanks for you patience with me.

[The Whizzard]

I've never setup a printer before but have seen posts on this several times.
I'm not sure about that particular Lexmark model but many Lexmark(and many others, for that matter) printers will work using a PostScript driver.
Like I said, I've never setup a printer in Linux before, so I'm just going on what I've read in several posts.

[Choozo]

The 'random accessing' of the harddrive is probably just 'slocate' running to update the database of files on your system. This so you can locate files quickly on your system with the 'locate' command.

Try the 'top' command when this activity is going on, and see if 'slocate' is listed then.

Cheers :)

[ 18 October 2001: Message edited by: Choozo ]

[Ludootje]

the mouse: yes, you can make it work, it's not the company which has to support linux, but linux which has to support the mouse, and linux supports it as far as i remember. I don't know for suse, but when i install my mandrake, it asks me which mouse i use, and then it tests it.. I have a wheel on it, which works fine.. Though, I don't know how you can set this up without the install, and certainly not for suse.. Isn't there a suse configure center somewhere? Or maybe in your menu you have a submenu called 'configuration', if you have such a thing search there.. So, I can't really help you, exept I'm 85% sure your mouse will work (if you find how to config it, and logitech mouse isn't there, check the others, it might work when you select another mouse-type)

Ludo

[AdaHacker]

Setting up the middle button isn't all that hard once you know how to do it. I may be as simple as just an extra line in /etc/X11/XF86Config. All my Logitech trackball required was
ZAxisMapping 4 5
Protocol "intellimouse" #I have a serial mouse
Check out this (http://koala.ilog.fr/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/) URL for instructions.