Hello SLUs I have a problem with a new installation of Red Hat 7.3. After an apparently successful installation procedure (using the GUI interface, with the mouse), during the re-boot, the screen for new hardware added/removed tells me that there is no longer a PS2 mouse - to which I reply "do nothing" - and then when X is started (using 'startx', after a keyboard log-in), there is no response to the mouse (or to the keyboard, as far as I can tell).
I've tried the installation several times, sometimes choosing "3-buttin PS2 mouse", and sometimes choosing "MS Intellimouse" (as the mouse is one with a wheel). I've also tried a different, 2-button PS2 mouse that has never before given me problems. One of my installation attempts also gave me no response to the keyboard, so that I was unable to log in at all. I've done various experiments - one of which is installing RH 6.0, which I had successfully installed before. In this case, the installation gets almost to the end, and then I get an error message: "an error occurred during the step 'configure mouse' of the install", which I can't get past, and so the installation aborts. On the other hand, I did a successful installation of RH 7.0, with X working fine, and seeing the mouse. My system: My system is a PentiumII 350 on an AOpen AX6B board. I have been using this machine for three years, and have had various different configurations, with multiple disks and multi-booting with different OS's. Recently, I added a Promise ATA adapter card, which I got working with relatively little trauma. The HDDs that I am using for installation of OSs are on the second IDE connector of the mainboard (because of the layout of the box, it's easier to wire them up to IDE 2, and the CD and zip to IDE 1 - does this matter?) History (may or may not be relevant): Thinking that I was very clever, I thought that I'd completely re-build my system (something that I have done before, in various configurations), but God seems to have taken exception to my hubris, and this mouse problem is just one of several other bugs that seem to have come from nowhere - another is that the BIOS no longer recognises one of my CD drives on start-up, and another is that the other CD drive (which is a CD-RW) doesn't boot from certain CDs that should be bootable. Is there any connection here? Does re-flashing the BIOS seem to be a thing to try (I've never done that before)? Have I zapped something? Replys: If anyone can offer any helpful suggestions, I'd be grateful. Could you please mail to me directly as well as to the SLUG list, as we have an electronic Nazi here where I work, which blocks over half of the SLUG message digests that come to me, 'believing' that they may carry malevolent code. Also, if any of your sugestions involve using 'file system check' command, then please be careful with your typing, as our electronic guardian also checks all in-comming and outgoing e-mails for rude words. My e-mail address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, Adam Marchant -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
