the ongoing saga ... mandriva and lenovo x60 tablet

so... on the advice of some mandriva-gurus, and the promise of increased support for wacom tablets and laptop acpi in 2008.0 -- i downloaded Mandriva 2008.0, popped it into my usb dvd drive, and booted. i chose to install (NOT upgrade) mandriva 2007.1 (spring).

install went smoothly; but no recognition of the wacom tablet. so.. set up software distribution sources (making sure to load both official and distribution sources) -- then load the wacom tablet drivers and control panel.

following all the steps in previous posts on this blog took about 90 minutes (eliminating all the things that did not work...), and pretty much everything works out of the box!
(even an old pc-card iomega clik drive... boy, do i feel old... ).

well.. of course, the stylus wouldn't work for anything.

the problem?
turns out that mandriva.2008.0 inserts a:

Identifier "Mouse1"

statement into the "InputDevice" section of the xorg.conf file.
this is bad.

change it to:

Identifier "Configured Mouse"

and ... all joy!
(remember to also change the InputDevice line in the "ServerLayout" section)