Re: [newbie] psaux and keyboard locking up
Johnmost of the info you're referring to is laid out quite nicely in the information section of the KDE Control Center. Alan John Aldrich wrote: On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, you wrote: My mouse is a PS/2, but isn't that configured under psaux in linux?? PS/2 mice use IRQ 12, well at least mine does ;) And my PS/2 mouse port seems to be enabled because while linux is loading, I see PS/2 mouse port detected, and mouseconfig tells me "Mouse found on PS/2 port".. but when I enable it, that's when my keyboard jams... It might be due to an IRQ conflict, because somebody else had this problem and also had a Diamond V770 on their machine... But then again, my Diamond V770 is using IRQ 11... Is Linux having problems with two IRQs too close?? Ah so that's what psaux means. :-) Why dintja just say so? ;-) My guess is that the video card is either using TWO IRQs (dunno why) or maybe the I/O base is conflicting??? Hard to tell. That's one thing I like about Windows -- you can tell what's using which I/O and IRQ fairly easily I have yet to find anything QUITE so nicely laid out in an easy-to-understand manner under Linux.. :-( John
Re: [newbie] psaux and keyboard locking up
John Aldrich wrote: On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, you wrote: My mouse is a PS/2, but isn't that configured under psaux in linux?? PS/2 mice use IRQ 12, well at least mine does ;) And my PS/2 mouse port seems to be enabled because while linux is loading, I see PS/2 mouse port detected, and mouseconfig tells me "Mouse found on PS/2 port".. but when I enable it, that's when my keyboard jams... It might be due to an IRQ conflict, because somebody else had this problem and also had a Diamond V770 on their machine... But then again, my Diamond V770 is using IRQ 11... Is Linux having problems with two IRQs too close?? Ah so that's what psaux means. :-) Why dintja just say so? ;-) My guess is that the video card is either using TWO IRQs (dunno why) or maybe the I/O base is conflicting??? Hard to tell. That's one thing I like about Windows -- you can tell what's using which I/O and IRQ fairly easily I have yet to find anything QUITE so nicely laid out in an easy-to-understand manner under Linux.. :-( /proc/ioports -- Device memory usage /proc/interrupts-- Device interrupts /proc/dma -- Device DMA channels The video card does not use 2 IRQs. Here's the /proc/pci output for the V770 card (warning, it's gonna wrap!): Bus 1, device 0, function 0: VGA compatible controller: NVidia Unknown device (rev 21). Vendor id=10de. Device id=28. Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 9. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=5.Max Lat=1. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe400 [0xe400]. Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe600 [0xe608]. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] psaux and keyboard locking up
It seems I have a common problem which has no solution... I have a Diamond V770 and a PS/2 mouse, a MouseMan+PS/2 to be exact. I can't set my mouse with either XF86Setup or xf86config under either RedHat 6.0 or Mandrake 6.1. I have seen that many people are writing to this list with the same problem... Does anyone have or know about a way to fix this bug? Looking on the web, I found an old message (1998) with the same problem on 2.0.34... Should I try downloading the new development kernels (is there something new in them?), even if I don't know much or anything about Linux. Thanks, Tim I've been on this problem sooo long now, it's starting to get annoying! Hehe...
Re: [newbie] psaux and keyboard locking up
On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, you wrote: No this doesn't work either.. Sorry, I forgot to mention that configuring my mouse for psaux (the others not working) locks up my keyboard and mouse... psaux??? Not familiar with that config. Are you using serial or PS/2 mouse? Or are you trying to use a PS/2 mouse with a serial adapter? AFAIK, serial and PS/2 are the only options you have, and trying to use PS/2 with an adapter doesn't work well for most people. Sounds like you've got a serious IRQ conflict somewhere... Are you trying to use your serial mouse in a comm port that's in use by your internal modem or anything, by any chance? Do you have a PS/2 mouse port and have it enabled in BIOS by any chance? IIRC, that MAY share an IRQ with one of your serial ports... don't recall off hand what IRQ PS/2 mouse tries to use... John
Re: [newbie] psaux and keyboard locking up
My mouse is a PS/2, but isn't that configured under psaux in linux?? PS/2 mice use IRQ 12, well at least mine does ;) And my PS/2 mouse port seems to be enabled because while linux is loading, I see PS/2 mouse port detected, and mouseconfig tells me "Mouse found on PS/2 port".. but when I enable it, that's when my keyboard jams... It might be due to an IRQ conflict, because somebody else had this problem and also had a Diamond V770 on their machine... But then again, my Diamond V770 is using IRQ 11... Is Linux having problems with two IRQs too close?? Tim psaux??? Not familiar with that config. Are you using serial or PS/2 mouse? Or are you trying to use a PS/2 mouse with a serial adapter? AFAIK, serial and PS/2 are the only options you have, and trying to use PS/2 with an adapter doesn't work well for most people. Sounds like you've got a serious IRQ conflict somewhere... Are you trying to use your serial mouse in a comm port that's in use by your internal modem or anything, by any chance? Do you have a PS/2 mouse port and have it enabled in BIOS by any chance? IIRC, that MAY share an IRQ with one of your serial ports... don't recall off hand what IRQ PS/2 mouse tries to use... John
