On Fri, 6 Sep 2002 16:41, Adam Marchant wrote: > 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.
Check gpm it sometimes kills mouse usage in X. I'm not sure about RH7.3 but some distributions start it automatically at boot and it interferes with some mice in X. Just a thought Stay well and happy Heracles -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
