Hello.

I'm almost sure this is not a gentoo specific question, but I think
someone might happen to know something about it, so here it goes.
I'm running gentoo (1.4, up to date) at home, with no problems at all.
As of 3 days ago, mouse stopped working (both in windows and in linux),
so I figured it could be a mouse problem. However, when I disconnected
the mouse from the ps/2 port, the keyboard would hang when something
tried to open /dev/psaux (either gpm or X), so I asked someone to log in
remotely to test it, and yes, when he killed gpm, keyboard was back
normally.
I brought the mouse to another computer, and it won't work no matter
what, so I guess the mouse is faulty anyway.
However... is it normal or expected behaviour, or a known bug of gpm or
the kernel (2.4.20-gentoo-r.. don't remember the number, but it's the
latest official stable gentoo kernel), that when something opens
/dev/psaux, it will hang the keyboard?
I'm really confused on this, but just hoping that it doesn't have
anything to do with the motherboard (Soyo DragonPlus) superIO chio, else
I think i'll have to either get a USB mouse or get a new motherboard.

Any advice on this?

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