I have been able to disable, gpm. This does fix part of my problem. However the keyboard and mouse does become unresponsive when i launch X. I have a S3 Trio 64 video card, running on a P166 with 64MB memory. I used to run Freebsd and Turbolinux on this PC before without any problems. Any suggestions ? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Warren Doney Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 1999 9:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 6.1,keyboard and mouse problem. We need to know the make & model of your video card/chip, & did you select it from the list during install ? -Warren ----- Original Message ----- From: Will Downs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 5:20 PM Subject: [newbie] Mandrake 6.1,keyboard and mouse problem. > I hope some one can help me, thanks in advance.. > > I just finished installing Version 6.1. >> during the installation, when I was trying to configure X. I couldn't do any > thing at the test window, my mouse and keyboard where unresponsive... I > couldn't type or move my mouse. I had to wait for the timeout to expire. I > then skip this portion of the install to get the system up... > > On reboot, my mouse and keyboard are unresponsive althought the kernel does > recognized my PS/2 mouse. My keyboard is responsive until the login prompt. > > I unplugged my PS/2 mouse from the system then rebooted. I was then able to > login and browse the system, but X (KDM) still didn't start. I ran > Xconfigurator, without the mouse connected to my system. I still had to wait > for the timeout to expire. X still didn't work. I remember with a different > version of linux I ran before, gpm didn't like my system, could this be the > problem ? > > Any suggestions ? >
