Okey doke. Here's the scoop, I found the problem so I felt I should share it with you. (see a "good" member) :)
I had an Adaptec AHA-1520 (dumb) SCSI ISA PnP controller installed. I removed it, and VOILA! the keyboard and mouse started working again. I was able to trace it to a resource conflict with the way this particular m/b handles ISA PnP and the AHA-1520. I replaced it with an AHA-2940 SCSI PCI and no problems. HTH someone. :) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roy Vestal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 1:09 PM Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Speaking of weird hardware problems > I did try this before the post. > > Yes they kybd and mouse work in rc3, but if i startx in rc3 it looses > keyboard and mouse. All I have to do is remove the SCSI card and the > problems go away. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Marty Ferguson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Trilug Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 11:23 AM > Subject: RE: [TriLUG] Speaking of weird hardware problems > > > > Roy, > > > > Two more ideas... > > > > (1) > > By "going graphical" you mean that you enter runlevel5, right? > > You have the X Window System root screen plus other stuff, right? > > And a non-responsive keyboard and mouse, right? > > And CTRL-ALT-Fx does not give you a tty console, right? > > > > First debug... log in as root at tty1 in runlevel 3. Run X with no > > adornment. > > # X > > > > Try to get back to tty1 CTRL-ALT-F1 > > This will isolate the domain of the problems and whether they lie within > the > > X Window System/Xserver > > itself, or with other desktop issues, X/Gnome/KDE session management etc. > > > > (2) > > ================ > > A follow on suggestion... poke around in /proc/interrupts, iomem, ioports > > and such. You may need to provide some PnP overrides using (yech) > > the isapnp utility. I've seen video rob the IRQ2 (cascade) > > for synch timing. The AHA-1520 could be inserting itself in > > somewhere in the IRQ priority. > > > > Marty > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Roy Vestal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 10:00 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list > > Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Speaking of weird hardware problems > > > > > > I have one PCI card, the NIC. The SCSI is an AHA-1520 ISA PnP card. I've > got > > a 2940 around here somewhere, I just didn't want to waist it on a CD > tower. > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Marty Ferguson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 10:40 AM > > Subject: RE: [TriLUG] Speaking of weird hardware problems > > > > > > > Roy, > > > > > > Did you try just swapping around PCI cards into different slots? > > > The enumeration of the IO space is kind of arbitrary. There are > > > more sophisticated ways to eliminate these problems, if indeed these > > > problems are due to PCI bus mastering and priority. But the wrote > > > approach of just trying different slots untill you get a combination > > > that works properly is the conventional wisdom. > > > > > > Marty > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Behalf Of Roy Vestal > > > Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 9:22 AM > > > To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list > > > Subject: [TriLUG] Speaking of weird hardware problems > > > > > > > > > Ok, here's a weird one. > > > > > > The LVM machine that I mentioned earilier this week, well, yeah, they > gave > > > me another old box to replace it. So I moved my nic and good drives and > > scsi > > > card. I loaded FC1 AND WBEL on this thing. Whenever I went graphical, > I'd > > > loose the mouse and keyboard. > > > > > > After many hours/days of pulling hair, rebuilding the os, removing > > modules, > > > unloading services, I started trying hardware. I removed the SCSI card > > > (AHA-1520) that I hang a CD tower off and it worked! I now have > graphical > > > keyboard and mouse! > > > > > > Any suggestions? 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