On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Steve Juranich wrote: > On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Damian Menscher wrote: > > > Ok, this is *really* strange: > > > > I have a fairly new setup: woody + 2.4.0-test9 kernel. I had everything > > working fine. I wanted to move my computer, so I shut it down, carried > > it over to new location, and turn it back on. When it comes up into XDM > > I discover the keyboard does nothing. I try a second keyboard, still > > nothing. Rebooting shows the keyboards work fine while the system is > > booting, but when it gets into X they stop. Finally, I just booted into > > single user mode, and the keyboard is fine. > > > > I experienced something similar a while ago. My problem turned out to be a > faulty mouse cable. In my case, I had to shut down the computer, unplug the > mouse, plug it back in and power up. I know this is a very Redmond-like > solution, but it fixed my problem. > > It's a long shot, but you might try using a different mouse.
Or a mouse at all ;) Knowing I wasn't going to use the mouse, I hadn't bothered plugging it in. I did that and everything is fine. Incidentally, this is only a problem with a PS/2 mouse, not a serial mouse. I'll have to figure out the proper place to send a bug report on this one.... [By the way, sorry about not giving *complete* information. It just seemed *so* irrelevant! Being a sysadmin, I should have known better.] Damian Menscher -- --==## Grad. student & Sys. Admin. @ U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ##==-- --==## <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.uiuc.edu/~menscher/ Ofc:(217)333-0038 ##==-- --==## Physics Dept, 1110 W Green, Urbana IL 61801 Fax:(217)333-9819 ##==--
