Mouse doesnt work on laptop

[bolle]

Downloaded a TInyMe live cd, ran it, looks great

but i cant use either my usb mouse
or the touchpad on my laptop.


it works in puppy linux, so i know everything is fine..


what could be the problem?

[gettinther]

Welcome to the forum Bolle.

Did you try to load in safemode or vesa mode on the livecd?  Do you get the same issue?  Did you use the lzma or bzip iso?

What's your laptop spec?

When you press the escape key at the boot stage, you will switch to verbose mode, do you see any [FAIL] message?

[bolle]

[quote author=gettinther link=topic=812.msg3304#msg3304 date=1259972671]
Welcome to the forum Bolle.

Did you try to load in safemode or vesa mode on the livecd?  Do you get the same issue?  Did you use the lzma or bzip iso?

What's your laptop spec?

When you press the escape key at the boot stage, you will switch to verbose mode, do you see any [FAIL] message?
[/quote]

ive safedmode i think i used bzip..

dell latitude c640
512 mb ram
40 gig hard drive

[gettinther]

Do you get the [FAIL] message?  It's the most probable cause.  It should happen just before the switch to the login screen.  One of the side effects is the lack of mouse support.  I thought this was fixed so maybe your issue is different.

[bolle]

no FAIL messages..

so weird
i really want to try this distro

[gettinther]

Can you try something for me?

At the boot screen, press F3 to edit the command and add the number 3, then press enter.  This will limit your boot sequence to init3 (verbose login).

Log in as root (password is "root").  Then type

Quote:gdm

This will launch the graphical login and you should be able to see if you get mouse support.

[bolle]

[quote author=gettinther link=topic=812.msg3308#msg3308 date=1260067708]
Can you try something for me?

At the boot screen, press F3 to edit the command and add the number 3, then press enter.  This will limit your boot sequence to init3 (verbose login).

Log in as root (password is "root").  Then type

Quote:gdm

This will launch the graphical login and you should be able to see if you get mouse support.
[/quote]

when i pressed f3 nothing happened..

then it said boot options, and i put the number 3 there..
( there was nothing there before )

pressed enter, got to the text login, logged into root, and typed gdm
and it said something like
bash% gdm command not found
or something .

[gettinther]

sorry, I forgot tinyme had switched to Slim

please, instead of gdm try either:

init5
or
startx

[bolle]

when i type startx it just starts the desktop up, just like it would if i didnt put the "3" in the boot options.

mouse still doesnt work..

[gettinther]

Sorry bolle.  There's something really strange.  There's one last attempt you could try.  When you get to the command line (before you type startx). type:
do-vesa
(it should be included on the livecd.  This will reset the xorg file to a "basic version"). Next type startx to get to the desktop again.

Otherwise I think Kdulcimer is getting the next beta ready and hopefully that'll fix your issue.