strangely , I having the same problem . I using ATI 3D rage bulit on the motherboard . It seem to confilt with something else , during installation the gaphic interface seem to be o.k and working with mouse . After the first reboot , the mouse refuse to work. I will be installing slackware to check if the problem still exist . well , seem to me it a software BUG .
Regrads , Simon Ong Kah Choon ----- Original Message ----- From: "SHOBHIT MATHUR" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 10:54 PM Subject: [Newbie]gpm.c (oops) > Hello All, > > I am observing strange behaviour, which I had not encountered > earlier. I have been able to configure and run a multihead > setup successfully with my ATI and Matrox VGA cards previously. > > This time round [ on a fresh installation ], the introduction of > a second card [Matrox], causes the boot-up to throw a messsage > from gpm.c which says > > gpm.c (line 978) (oops). /dev/mouse "Device busy"... > > I cannot remember the exact string since, the message disappears > during boot-up and is not logged anywhere. > > Nevertheless, this is not allowing "X" to come up. This problem > does not occur if only 1 video card exists in the system. > > Setup - Redhat 7.1 Linux > i386 arch > Acer 6000 > ATI [ built-in VGA ] > MAtrox [ Add-on VGA ] > > > - I never observed such behaviour earlier, but, if someone can shed > some light on this, I will be very grateful and would be able to > get going with my work ASAP..... > > - Please do try to let me know ..... > > - Thank you very much > > - Shobhit Mathur [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] > > _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
