Just a shot in the dark
Do you have any option in your BIOS about whether or not your OS
supports Plug & Play? If so, is it disabled? That caused really
strange unpredictable results for me running either Mandrake or Redhat
(not sure the versions). I just make sure it is disabled from now on.
-Original Message-
From: Felix Miata [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Posted At: Saturday, September 21, 2002 10:23 PM
Posted To: Mandrake Developer
Conversation: [Cooker] Show Stopper - No Mouse
Subject: Re: [Cooker] Show Stopper - No Mouse
Felix Miata wrote:
> Igor Izyumin wrote:
>>On Saturday 21 September 2002 04:06 am, Alastair Scott wrote:
>>>On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 23:46, Felix Miata wrote:
I first reported this Mon, 09 Sep 2002 21:34:28 -0400 here on cooker
and
got no response. The same thing herein described happened after
reinstalling 9.0RC2 two more times, and now again with 9.0RC3. IIRC,
this also happened in betas 2 and 3, but I didn't report it until
the
9th.
Mouse works in installer.
Mouse works in X in first boot.
Mouse dead in all boots after first boot.
I have no idea how to get mouse back without installing. Mouse is
Logitech optical USB wheel mouse on PS/2 adapter, which worked
perfectly
using 8.2 (and all 9.0 first boots) and still does using OS/2.
>>>The strangest thing about this is that I have exactly the same mouse,
>>>exactly the same adapter, exactly the same build (RC3 installed with
/
>>>reformatted) and no problems!
>>I have this mouse, too - same adapter, same everything. Worked
perfectly in
>>all builds. I don't use USB, and the serial/parallel ports are turned
on.
>>I doubt that's the problem.
> Probably not everything. I'm using K6/2 on MVP3, which has notorious
USB
> support under windoze at least. I'm not using USB for anything, but
that
> doesn't necessarily mean USB support couldn't be interfering. / is on
> hda, but there is also sda and sr0 on sym53c8xx, plus a Crystal 4235
ISA
> sound card.
> Come to think of it, my report was technically inaccurate. I reported
> the mouse not surviving boots after the first, but in fact I don't
> remember the number, which was greater than one in most or all cases,
> but just small, less than 5 or so, and IIRC, only one to runlevel 5 on
> the RC3 install. My RC3 install is the only one on which I remembered
to
> run sndconfig on the first boot. It may be that on the earlier
installs
> that mouse death only followed the boots on which I remembered to run
> sndconfig. Next install I'm going to have USB and serial disabled in
> BIOS and skip running sndconfig until such time as I've had the PS/2
> mouse survive multiple boots.
> Furthermore, also IIRC, the mouse problem started not only with RC2,
but
> also with the replacement of an ESS1868 ISA sound card with the
Crystal
> 4235.
Disabling USB and serial, and not running sndconfig, enabled me to boot
with working mouse seven times. For boot eight, I first removed the CDRW
from the SCSI bus. Mouse is still working on boot eight. Tomorrow
afternoon I'll try adding back the others one at a time and see what
happens.
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to you . . . ." Matthew 7:12 NIV
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