> -----Original Message----- > From: Arnt Karlsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2003 10:04 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Mouse no longer working after kernel upgrade > > > On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 18:10:16 -0500, > "DePriest, Jason R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I have a Compaq ProLiant 1600 that was running the stock > 3.0r1 kernel > > (2.2.20-idepci). > > I upgraded it via apt-get to 2.4.21-5-686-smp. > > > > While using 2.2.20-idepci, the mouse worked fine in X (using icewm). > > > > Since upgrading to 2.4.21-5-686-smp, the mouse no longer works. I > > have tried two different PS/2 mice and a serial mouse. > > > > I have ran 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86' about 50 times. > > > > I ran 'modconf' and made sure the PS/2 input device module > was loaded. > > > > There is no error. As a matter of fact, the mouse > ~pointer~ is there > > in the middle of the screen... it just doesn't move. > > > > If I use the LILO menu to boot back into the old kernel, the mouse > > works again. > > ..good. Use that to verify gpm works in the console, then have X use > /dev/gpmdata. The cute thing is you no longer have to restart X on > re-plugging your rodents. > > ..with your new kernel and X reading /dev/gpmdata instead of some > weird /dev/pissedoffaux, the problem reduces to get gpm working. > > ..you _could_ have gpm fighting X over the mouse, stalling it now. > > -- > ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-) > ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... > Scenarios always come in sets of three: > best case, worst case, and just in case. >
I installed gpm to get the mouse working in console. It still didn't work. At all. I changed the default kernel to the old one in LILO and I am working fine now. I had to remove gpm because it was not playing nice with X. I have changed my default distro to 'unstable' and run a dist-upgrade. The kernel seems to be 2.2.20-compact. The mouse is working normally with this kernel. -Jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
