On Monday 13 May 2002 9:23 am, Balajee Shrikanth wrote: > I have a Pentium II 450 MHz machine with 512 MB RAM and 40 GB Harddisk. It > has a AGP Riva TNT2 32MB Display Card, > US Standard Keyboard and a 2 Button PS/2 Mouse. > > X Version - > > XFree86 Version 4.2.0 / X Window System > (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600) > Release Date: 23 January 2002 > > > I have installed Mandrake 8.2 from the CD and during installation the mouse > works perfectly fine during installation process. Once the > installation is complete and when I startx from command prompt, the system > freezes when I move the mouse. At that point > the keyboard is also locked and i am not able to even do a numlock or a > caps lock. > > If I start X and ensure that the mouse is not touched, I am able to > navigate with the keyboard. If I use the mouse, the system freezes. > > I suspected problem with mouse and I have tested with another one. I > suspected problem with distribution - so tried RH7.2 and > ASPLinux7.2. Both are similar - mouse works fine during installation (From > ISO CDs) and once I startx after logging in, the system > freezes. If it is a hardware problem, then my reasoning is that the mouse > should not work during installation as well. > > I have tried it with gpm enabled and disabled. I have tried different types > of mouse including wheel mouse. I have tried all > combination in mouseconfig and Xconfigurator. I am not able to see any > error in the XFree86 log found in /var/log. > > I have tried KDE, GNOME, ICEWM - all have the same problem. > > Can any one give me an idea of what could be wrong? I have been grappling > with this problem for last 2 weeks and searches > in google/user groups dont help me much. > > Thank you, > > Kind Regards, > Balajee Shrikanth
Assuming you have already tried selecting a basic 2 button mouse, then my next guess would be an IRQ conflict. Try going to a console (Ctr+Alt+F2) log on and take a look at the interrupts 'more /proc/interrupts' (without the quotes) You can then play with your BIOS to try to reassign interrupts. Moving cards to different slots can sometimes help too. HTH derek
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