Re: 2.5.42 loses keyboard and mouse when starting X

[Murray J. Root]

On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 11:30:35PM +0200, Pozsar Balazs wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 05:48:33AM -0400, Murray J. Root wrote:
> > Not sure what info is needed here - there are no error messages
> > anywhere.
> > 
> > ASUS P4S533 (SiS645DX chipset)
> > P4 2Ghz cpu
> > 1G PC2700 RAM
> > SBLive! value (using ALSA driver)
> > NVidia GeForce2 GTS (using XFree86 nv driver)
> > PS/2 Keyboard & mouse
> > 
> > Mandrake 9.0
> > XFree86 4.2.1
> > 
> > Boot to console & login with no problem.
> > Run console apps with no problem.
> > run startx and X appears to start normally, but keyboard and mouse
> > are dead.
> > Only thing in .xinitrc is
> >   exec /usr/X11R6/bin/startfluxbox
> > 
> > No new messages in any log files.
> > 
> > Happens with all 2.5.4x including -ac
> 
> Do you have a PS/2 mouse? Try starting X without mouse, to see if it is 
> the problem.
> 
PS/2 mouse.
X won't start without mouse specified.
Disabling Load "glx" and making sure gpm wasn't running it switched to X
with the keyboard still functional, but not reliably. Sometimes it worked,
sometimes it didn't.
Having gpm loaded, it never worked - keyboard and mouse dead.
Having Load "glx" in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, it never worked.

2.4.x works fine in X

One thing I just noticed - gpm doesn't supply a mouse pointer in console 
in 2.5.x. It does in 2.4.x.

-- 
Murray J. Root
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