It turns out that the mouse that works on the family PC with Knoppix does not work with Knoppix on my PC.
Hello,
I've recently downloaded and used Knoppix 3.8.2. It works really well on the family PC. On my PC however, there are difficulties. I have a Logitech MX700 wireless USB mouse that doesn't work. It scans for USB devices for a while it seems and then later on in the boot says it found a PS/2 wheel mouse. Using the forum search feature I found a couple of topics dealing with this particular mouse but no solutions for me. Someone did suggest typing:
modprobe -r usbmouse
modprobe hid
When I tried this it said something along the lines of "module not found" for the usbmouse line. Of course I can use another mouse and it will solve the problem, but I'm curious if a solution has been found for the MX700
I'm thinking I can solve the wireless networking problem using ndiswrapper. I can navigate menus fine with just a keyboard but I would rather fix the mouse first
Lastly, I don't know if this could be the root of the problem or not. Starting up Knoppix it gives an error:
ACPI BIOS missed cutoff
Because of this error I went and upgraded my BIOS (or so I thought!) and it still gives this error. I disabled BIOS protection and when I regularly boot it says the BIOS version is the newer one that I installed. Any ideas for why the BIOS cutoff error still occurs?
Thanks
It turns out that the mouse that works on the family PC with Knoppix does not work with Knoppix on my PC.

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