mouse wont work - HELP PLZ - 1

[Goat]

Greetings
I have just installed red hat 7.1. But on booting it up I find that the mouse isnt working. it was during the install.
The mouse is a microsoft serial mouse. which is what i selected during installation.

I am very much a newbie to linux - so if there is a solution please tell me with lots of details.

Thanks for your help!

 

[johnhoke]

You could try logging in as root (su)

setup
then run mouseconfig

that should work

-John ---
John Hoke

 

[Goat]

yeah i tried that but no go. when i type startx i get a server crash error and i wont go back in the gui. and then when i reboot the mouse once again isnt working

I heard that it was a bug in 7.1 and that there is an update for it but i'm not sure how to download and install updates in text mode.

 

[johnhoke]

login to the console:

cd /tmp
ftp updates.redhat.com

(grab the updates needed)

then

rpm -Uvh *.rpm

that should do it

-John

(I keep a mirror of all the updates for my version locally on my servers using wget and running it from a cron job every night... then I can stay up to date as necessary <G>)
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John Hoke