On Monday 01 June 2009, Matthew Saltzman wrote: >On Mon, 2009-06-01 at 21:01 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> Well, its busy putting the finishing touches and the reboot to rawhide >> right now. It just asked for a runlevel 3 passwd. >> >> And the first casualty is my accessory usb mouse, its dead and I am stuck >> with that totally worthless scratchpad, which I swear picks up the local >> radio station, its totally spastic if the hand isn't held so high above >> the keyboard when typing that its strictly one finger typing. > >Gene, I think if you look at System -> Hardware -> Mouse in F11, there >is a setting to disable the touchpad when typing. If you don't see >that, or if you use KDE and it doesn't offer that option, check out >syndaemon, which is the utility that accomplishes that. It's part of >the synaptics driver package. To do that, it has to recognize a doubletap or a left click on the scratchpad. It did neither. F10 disk in drive, boot from dvd try 2 now, it locked up when I tried to delete the existing LVM crap so I could partition it the way I wanted on the first try. And it just did it again, would not delete the LVM stuff, claiming I had to define a root partition, so I went down to /dev/sda1, the ntfs partition, and clicked edit. And for the second time it is frozen solid. I was going to remove it as the xp install on that 30 gigs is of no more use to me, and set it up as a couple of linux partitions, starting with a 500 meg /boot. Correction, it will wake up and let me move the mouse 2 or 3 inches, then freeze again for 2 or 3 minutes. I've been bitching long and loudly (since FC2 TBE) about the fedora partitioning tools, and every increment in fedora finds an even more piss- poor, broken partitioning tool being supplied. Its LVM or there is the hiway to fedora, and from 2 personal experiences, one wrong byte on an LVM system=total loss. Reinstall from scratch, there is no repair facility, no e2fsck for lvm. Screw that... I'll find a copy of gparted and fix it, then see if I can bypass that menu, really folks, but why the hell should I have to? Humm, better yet, I have a kubuntu-8.04 disk around here someplace. Yeah, that's the ticket. And that will leave only this box running fedora 10 in my whole network. >-- > Matthew Saltzman > >Clemson University Math Sciences >mjs AT clemson DOT edu >http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The NRA is offering FREE Associate memberships to anyone who wants them. <https://www.nrahq.org/nrabonus/accept-membership.asp> Never insult an alligator until you've crossed the river. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
