On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 19:59:17 +0900 Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have a PS/2 style keyboard and a USB [microsoft] mouse.
Were you using the same kernel the last time you were running Gentoo? Perhaps some incompatibility?
Yup. I was using 2.4.22 from kernel.org [I used genkernel but I downloaded it myself]. I saved the config to another drive and am using it again for this build.
Perhaps, try emerging gpm to see if the mouse works on console. Or just cat /dev/input/mice and move the mouse around. ;-)
I'll try that when I get come from school. I noticed that when I cat'ed /dev/psaux [which is what I used originally] I get no output when I move the mouse. Wierd!.
But that doesn't explain why the keyboard works in the console but not in X [for the record, when I use fvwm the keyboard/mouse doesn't work either so I'm sure it's an X problem not KDE]
Also try doing something in background while you launch kdm to confirm if it's a hard lockup. Perhaps "kdm& sleep 60; reboot"?
It isn't. I did a ping in another console window and the ethernet was still going.
The cursor still blinks [in the username field] just the keyboard/mouse are locked out.
Ahh, troubleshooting, eh? Just try to isolate the symptoms as much as possible.
Thanks so far. Maybe I can put my conf files up on a website for people to browse.
So far this is what I have done
1. Took 1.4 Athlon-XP cd 2. fdisked, formatted, installed stage3 3. emerge sync'ed and updated world 4. emerged the kernel, hotplug, lilo, metalog, dcron 5. rebooted 6. emerge sync'ed again 7. "emerge -u kde" 8. waited. 9. waited. 10. Ran KDM and boom no results.
I should also add that I have tried the recent 1.4-basic [from sept 9'th] and got the same results [this was from a bootstrap build I started saturday night].
Tom
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