Sounds like your mouse has gone bad. Two weeks ago mine went bad while playing RtCW. Upon reboot, 'kudzu' said it noticed I'd removed the mouse (I hadn't - it was still plugged in) and wanted to know if it should uninstall it, and I said 'yes'. Just bought a new mouse, computer off, plug in mouse, computer on, and kudzu configured it for me. Standard easy-to-use Linux stuff.
Usually I only go in to Dick Smith for the pleasure of asking whether they support Linux, but I did pick up a $10 wheel mouse there. --Tom > 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 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
