Bruno Lustosa wrote:

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?

for sure NOT, but if your super I/O controller is broken ... it depends on stars ...

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?



If you replace broken mouse (PS2), would it work properly in winblowz ?
If not, you have not only broken mouse, but controler on mainboard as well :-(.


Noro


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