Keyboard and mouse freeze when starting XFree

Warhead

I installed Gentoo on a Pentium2 300, 128MB RAM, STB Velocity Graphics card (has a nVidia riva RNT chip). I am using the 2.4.26-gentoo-kernel. I emerged the nividia-kernel and the nvidia-glx, an added the nivida.o to my modules.autoload, it is now beeing loaded when I boot the machine without an error. I did 'X -configure' an I also used an working XF86Config from another machine, both had the same effect. When I do 'startx' I get this ugly looking standard windowmanager, but the keyboard and the mouse are not reacting on anything. I can't even stop X by pressing <CTRL>, <ALT>, >BACKSPACE>.
The only thing I can do is login on from another machine via SSH as root an do a reboot. I do not think XFree locks up, because, in the terminalwindows on the ugly WM the 'system is going down for reboot'-message is displayed, and also the analog clock, displayed in the upper right corner is working. The XFee log is not helping me ether. I will attach the log an my XF86Config to this post.
I have no idea what the problem is, any help ist greatly appreciated.
Regards
Kolja

XF86Config:

meyerm · Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2004 3:27 pm Post subject:

What mouse are you using? And does "cat /dev/mouse" say anything when you move the mouse?

Warhead · Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2004 4:27 pm Post subject:

cat /dev/mouse does not print anything on the screen
Or did you mean trying this while XFree ist running?
The mouse is a Logitec pilot whee mouse, connected via usb.

When detaching the mouse /var/log/messages states:

meyerm · Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2004 5:03 pm Post subject:

Does anything appear when you mouve the mouse while "cat /dev/usbmouse" and "cat /dev/psaux"?

Because _pehaps_ your link /dev/mouse points to /dev/misc/psaux which is your PS2 mouse. Which you don't have. So please have also a look for the link whereto it points.

Warhead · Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2004 7:46 pm Post subject:

This does not look good:

meyerm · Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2004 8:33 pm Post subject:

You need
USB support --->
<M> USB Human Interface Device (full HID) support
[*] HID input layer support

The rest should be choosen automagically. ;-)

Am I right guessing you're also using an USB keyboard?

Warhead · Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2004 8:49 pm Post subject:

Recompiling the kernel worked, yay me!
No, I am not using a USB keyboard, but the Keyboard was fixed in the moment, the mouse started working, strange, but I am not complaining.
Now the last problem ist, that after I shutdown the X server my console is broken, there are only strange colored 'blobs' on the screen....
But I am much happyer now :o)
Regards
Kolja
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meyerm · Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2004 10:07 pm Post subject:

Try using a default console without framebuffer.

drescherjm · Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2004 3:33 am Post subject:

I had the same problem with a USB mouse when I first used xfree so you are not alone...
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Warhead · Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2004 2:41 pm Post subject:

When I disable the framebuffer support everthing else works. I cna start my X with my choosen windowmanager, keyboard and mouse are working, and I can freely switch to the console, back to the WM and I can kill XFree without my console dieing.
Now I have to figure out what is wrong with the framebuffer, but I guess it is better to start a new thread with a matching subject for that problem.
Thanks for your help.
Regards
Kolja
_________________
To Rome said Nero: "If to smoke you turn
I shall not cease to fiddle while you burn."
To Nero Rome replied: "Pray do your worst,
'Tis my excuse that you were fiddling first."
--Orm Pludge

drescherjm · Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2004 6:24 pm Post subject:

I use a framebuffer and a bootsplash and most of the time when I exit X windows all is well but sometimes the screen does get corrupted and the fonts are all garbage. You can still type but it is impossible to read. The colors also get messed up. At this point I usually either ignore the problem and go back into X or reboot and all is well again.
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