On Wednesday 17 September 2003 01:10, Tom St.Denis wrote: > On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 11:04:48 -0400 > > "Tom St.Denis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Perhaps, try emerging gpm to see if the mouse works on > >>console. Or just cat /dev/input/mice and move the mouse > >>around. ;-) > > Ok wierd. I ram > > gpm -m /dev/mouse > > and my keyboard locked up. so maybe when USB is kicked in > it kills hardware? Knoppix works [I tried it recently] > with all it's USB mouse/PS2 keyboard glory [using > 2.4.21-xfs from knoppix]
Well then, you've isolated the problem (further). Some sort of conflict between usb and ps2. > So maybe the problem is actually in a recent USB tools > update? There were updates to usbutils on the 7th and 8th of this month, so you can try downgrading it. Have you tried acpi=off and such options to the kernel? > I'm going to try and merge in 2.4.21 and see if it works > [then 2.4.20] but I did have 2.4.22 working with gentoo > just last week [though I had set it up a few months before > that so the usbtools was probably not a recent update on > my box]. If this helps Which flavour of kernel are you running at the moment? Perhaps there has been a minor revision in the patches that is causing something? Regards, Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
