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. -- ". . . . in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you . . . ." Matthew 7:12 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/
