In article <1992Oct17.114642.7559@newstand.syr.edu>, foudil@panther.cat.syr.edu (Foudil Bey Kamal) writes:
|> Hi, I finally managed to get linux up. I however cannot get 
|> my mouse to be recognized. I get the standard response
|> that No logitech mouse, no PS/2 mouse and no ati mouse or
|> something like that. 
|> What am I to do to fix that. By the way, startx works but then hangs
|> because I cannot get to using the mouse.

What kind of a mouse DO you have?  Is it a serial or bus mouse?
The code in the Linux boot is only checking for bus mice.  My
Mouse Systems bus mouse is really a serial mouse on a non-standard
serial port.  Linux puts out the same three messages about not finding
a mouse during boot.  But, I have the correct serial device in my Xconfig
file and Xfree86-1.0Ya works just fine with my mouse.

|> PS: I tried to add a user using the menu, linux does not allow me
|> to add a regular user all it accepts are superuser addons.

I have had no problems adding users directly to the /etc/passwd
file.  Though I have found most of the admin tools to be very lacking
in the way they work (or don't work).  Some don't work with shadow
passwd files at all.  

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