pseudoninja

hey people, today i tried an evaluation cd of SuSE (live based, on-the-fly). while it was loading during the boot splash it supported my standard usb mouse. but then when the desktop began to load, the mouse pointer was left helpless in the middle of the screen. the light was still on but nobody home. i like the looks of SuSE and am considering using it instead of XP, but only if it will be able to support all my hardware like windows can. any ideas? i'm running p4 2.4, soltek sl-85mir mainboard, and netcomm winmodem.

I haven't yet tried the console commands danleff, but do you happen to know why suse DOESN'T HAVE ANYTHING UNDER /MNT !!!??? I can't access my hard drives or anything. Both drives are detected by the hardware manager and the partitions are recognised, so I don't think I have any hardware problems. My flash disk by the way is a 128MB Apacer. There are devices under /dev, but there doesn't seem to be anything mounted or useable... I'll try dmesg when I can get back home though, thanks people!!!

Update: I got the mouse to work by entering pcmi=off in the boot command I can't get my Winmodem to work by using the gui (we're in SuSE, KDE here) or my usb flash drive to work. The usb mouse is the test to make sure SuSE can support usb under my chipset (i485G), so why can't it use my flash disk eh? Incidently, I'm running Lindows right now on the fly. It supports my usb mouse, mounts my little flash drive on the desktop and is using my Winmodem all without a hitch. Nice. But I want to use SuSE- don't ask me why okay, I'm not into being practical and I just like it better. 8)