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by croydon8

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I cant use my mouse and keyborad it just freezes when it gets to the logon section of suse linux. I think it might be because I changed my mouse as the one I used when I was installing Linux is damaged and I had to change it.
I would be grateful tohear for solutions.

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by thechas

Double check that the mouse and keyboard connectors are not swapped.
Many motherboards require them to be plugged into the correct connector only.

by dlinuxd

Sounds like you boot to graphical logon. And X doesn't work well with strange new mice.
You may be able to to a text terminal and log in. Then you can fix your XF86Config file to work with new mouse.
You can also pass paramaters to lilo when booting, ie: 'linux 1' or 'linux 3' to boot to runlevel 1 or 3 and avoid graphical login (Assuming your kernel-image name is 'linux'.) SuSE may even have a 'fail-safe' configuration installed that you can select from lilo menu/prompt. I forget,
bash-2.05$ uptime
3:53pm up 95 days, 6:55, 6 users, load average: 1.16, 1.15, 1.16.
I Don't reboot much.
Good luck and have a lot of fun...
Dan Dofton
Hangin' LuSE with SuSE

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