Got a new mouse. Phew.

And the wonderful thing is that I just plugged it into the USB and it worked! Even on Linux, that doesn't like USB.

Nice one!

I did end up reinstalling yesterday. Took all of 30 minutes. I love Linux.

The reason I reinstalled is because I've been trying to get the TV-Out working on my graphics card, which is no mean feat. I installed the two drivers the cards' website told me to, rewrote the graphics configuration file and started the GUI.

Oops, no can do.

So I stripped out the error information from the logfile and asked around the Mandrake newsgroups. They informed me that there was yet ANOTHER driver to install, which I didn't have.

So I've been downloading the 4 gig set of six CD's which does, somewhere, have the file I want.

Started off by downloading disks 4,5 and 6 as I already have the first three disks.

Then I find out that the file I want is on Disk 3. A slightly different disk 3 to the one I own.

Bollocks.

So I'm downloading the bloody other three now.