On Sun, 20 Jul 2003, Jeremy Gregorio wrote: > First off, thanks man. I'm using grub to boot (since I'm still on > Redhat 9 as my main OS), but the options are simular. Here's the > relevent part of my grub.conf: > > title Mandrake 9.1 > root (hd0,7) > kernel (hd0,7)/vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.13mdk root=/dev/hda9 > hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi pci=noapic noapic > initrd (hd0,7)/initrd-2.4.21-0.13mdk.img > > Sadly this didn't work. I've got an Nforce2 based board, the chipset's > made by nvidia. Support for the board is relavively new, but the mouse > does work during install. I'm at a loss here. The nodes seem to be in > /dev and seem to be corrent. The driver selection seems fine in > XF86Config-4. Heck, if I run 'XFree86 -configure' X claims to have found > the mouse on /dev/mouse (a sym link to /dev/usbmouse which in turn links > to /dev/input/mice, if I remember correctly). There's also nothing in my > XFree86.0.log to indicate a problem. The mouse will light up briefly > during boot (it's an optical) but then go dead and stay that way. I > really don't know what to do.
You can try putting "MOUSE=yes" into your /etc/sysconfig/usb file (if it isn't already there). Are you using a USB hub or KVM switch, or is the mouse plugged directly into a motherboard-connected USB slot? The former arrangements can sometimes lead to unexpected behavior like this ... -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 & 9.0 "There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don't." - Robert Benchley
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