----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason Stubbs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 8:39 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] XFree86/KDE Problems
> 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? Sorry much too late. I have work todo so I sadly moved back to WinXP [arrg] for the time being. Thanks anyways. For what it's worth I had -r1 of usbutils installed [so did my bro] which is older than this month [by default emerge usbutils will get -r1]. My setup was fairly typical: AMD XP 2400+ ASUS A7V333 Motherboard USB Mouse [Microsoft IntelliMouse] PS2 Keyboard [104-key fairly standard thingy] IDE hard disk, IDE cdrom [LG combo] CMPCI audio BTTV tv tuner GeForce Ti200 Video Card In my most recent build with 2.4.20-r7 [gentoo-sources], 2.4.20 [vanilla] and 2.4.22 all of the devices seemed to load correctly. The trouble was as soon as I tried to use the mouse the keyboard controller halted. The keyboard kept buffering keys though [which was wierd]. I had installed Gentoo 1.4 in July and it worked perfectly. So the break is in one of the usb related tools/drivers merged in since I last installed. I've tried a 1.4 released CD [athlon-xp] and a x86-1.4 [sept 9th] basic bootstrap build. Both failed. Anyways, I have school work todo and a book to write so I have to just use WinXP to get work done [no way!] Tom -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
