A short update...
I have traced it down to the kernel version. With the kernel in 7.2, mouseconfig cannot probe the mouse at all and all sorts of problems occur. If I boot with the same / partition, but an earlier kernel version I find that mouseconfig probes the mouse fine and X works fine. Any suggestions on how I track down exactly where the breakage is occuring? I suspect this is a bug, and that it needs to be fixed as surely others will run into this problem. Dan On Sun, 11 Nov 2001, Dan Mueth wrote: > > Hi, > > I am experiencing some strange problems with getting my mouse and keyboard > to work with X on RH 7.2 which I'm hoping somebody can help with. > > I have a machine with a Matrox G400, Logitech 3-button PS/2 mouse, and > standard (104 key?) us keyboard. I don't have any USB devices connected. > My machine has RH 6.2, 7.1, and 7.2 on different partitions. On 6.2 and > 7.1, the mouse and keyboard work fine with X. > > In 7.2, I cannot get the mouse or keyboard to work with X. When I run > Xconfigurator I can see the screen fine. (And when I startx, I can even > see GNOME and Nautilus start up fine.) However, I am unable to press the > "OK" button on the Xconfigurator test X session dialog using the keyboard > or the mouse. The mouse does not move the pointer at all. Fairly > frequently, when the X test times out after 10 seconds, the Xconfigurator > screen will freeze. When it freezes, I cannot switch between virtual > terminals or do anything at all with the keyboard. I can log in remotely > from another machine, and stopping gpm will free up the terminal window > and unlock the keyboard. I have tried combinations of the following: > > 1) reconfiguring the mouse with mouseconfig > 2) copying /etc/sysconfig/mouse, /etc/sysconfig/keyboard, ...XF86Config, > ...XF86Config-4 from my 7.1 partition (which works fine) into 7.2 > 3) stopping GPM before running Xconfigurator > 4) disconnecting the mouse before running Xconfigurator and just trying to > push the OK button with the keyboard > 5) disconnecting the keyboard during the test X session and trying to push > the OK button with the mouse > > However, none of these things helped at all. > > Note that the interrupts for the keyboard (1) and mouse (12) are the same > as with 6.2 and 7.1. > > One other very bizarre thing which happens is that sometimes after the X > test session times out after 10 seconds, the keyboard will be very messed > up. For example, some keys may not work, various keys will be exchanged > with each other, or the tab button will tab backwords. Generally stopping > gpm fixes these problems. > > Any helpful suggestions would be greatly appreciated. > > TIA, > > Dan > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
