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!

Suggestion I (clutching at straws) - do you use serial and parallel
ports? I don't - everything is USB apart from keyboard and mouse - so
turned them off, plus the unused onboard Ethernet connection, in the
BIOS and doing so seemed to get rid of a few minor glitches.

Suggestion II (ditto) - turn off gpm.

A no-no, in some circumstances, appears to be changing the mouse
connection (from USB to PS/2 or vice versa) when a build is active.
This, in RC2, led to effects reported by me earlier (harddrake
continually finding a "new" mouse, switching between /dev/psaux and
/dev/usbmouse on alternate boots).

Alastair

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