[AlexClifford]

Hello,

I installed CentOS 3.3 in VMWare 4.0 Workstation on my Dell Inspiron 8600 Notebook on the weekend but I can't for the life of me configure it to use either my Dell Mouse Touchpad nor a Microsoft Optical USB Mouse.

Has anyone had any issues with this before or know of a quick solution? I don't think there are any specific drivers for either of the mouses I've used that are specifically for *nix/Linux so I'm hoping CentOS 3.3 has good USB 2.0 support? But I don't know!

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

Alex

[pterygiod]

You could try installing the synaptics driver for linux, although your pad should still emulate a normal mouse already http://web.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/

I would go with one of the bigger named linux distros for a laptop anyway. Otherwise you'll spend hours tweaking the configuration eg cpu speed will run at 100%...

New version of Suse or mandrake if you really need it to run on a laptop.