Thanks for the reply, Tom yes, it could perhaps be the mouse, as I have had mice spontaneously die on me beofre. However, there are two points against this: one is that I have tried with two different mice, with the same results, and two, the mouse worked OK during the GUI setup of the RH 7.3 - it was only after everything was installed, and I invoked X, that the mouse ceased to be (and the mice work with other, not-to be-named-in-this-forum OSs) - also, the case where neither the keyboard nor the mouse worked after installation suggest that the problem may be 'deeper'.
Anyway, I suppose that it would be an easy experiment to borrow a mouse from another system, and try again. Yrs, Adam M >>> Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 09/06/02 04:16pm >>> 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). > > [etc. etc. removed] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
