[ale] H/W Q: Fedora-C3 and Dell's USB keyboard & mouse, SATA drives

[Geoffrey]

Mills, John M. wrote:
> ALErs -
> 
> I want to install Linux on a current Dell _Optiplex_G280_ box, but haven't
> been successful with RH-7.3, Slackware-10.1, nor Knoppix-3.3. Even when I
> swapped out the SATA hard-drive with IDE the and USB mouse with PS-2, at
> some point [XFree86?] they all failed to see the USB keyboard. It looked
> like a losing battle so I stopped beating on it, dragged out a dumpster-dive
> Gateway, and stumbled forward(?) with RH-7.3.
> 
> Should I expect Fedora/Core-3 to install on my current Dell (SATA, USB)
> hardware configuration? If not, what distribution might work?

I don't have any experience (yet) with SATA drives, but I do have a 
couple of machines running with USB mice, including the one I'm sending 
this email from.  All the machines I've had success with usb mouse have 
been SuSE, either 9.2 or 9.1.

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Until later, Geoffrey