Hi,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> We are having problems getting PS/2 mice (several different brands) to
> work with
> various Single Board Computer (SBC) using RedHat 5.2 on some uniprocessor
> systems and RedHat 6.0 or 6.1 on some SMP systems. During boot Linux reports
> PS/2 mouse detected but they are non-responsive when Linux is up and Gnome is
> unusable without a working mouse. Switching to serial mice works but
> we have had
> problems under RedHat 5.x with GPM interfering with serial devices on
> the other
> com port. One of our systems has a cluster of Trenton SBCs controlled
> by a Black
> Box KVM switch (PS/2) so we need to fix the PS/2 mouse problem.
Do you have GPM on the console enabled? The try disabling it.
Sometimes X and GPM are fighting over the mouse. Can't tell, sometimes
it works sometimes it doesn't.
Bye,
Stefan.
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