x loads and keyboard and mouse stop working, hard reboot

[Air-Op]

Hello,

I just installed 1.4rc3...

I ran XF86config and told it to do auto mouse, 104 key keyboard.

ASUS
Nforce1 athlon XP 1700+, gamming kernel

nv server
32megs ram dedicated to it.

USB mouse (logitech optical wheelmouse, Knoppix detects it...)

I have since emerged nvidia kernel and glx
but have not changed my XF86Config file from what came out of XF86Config

I suppose the next thing for me to do is change nv to nvidia
or is there a better Xconfiguration tool that is only an emerge away

I don't know much about my kernel configuration... I know it's gamming kernel
and I know we rsyced Saturday, March 29, 8am-11pm for the kernel
and I rsyced again on the 31st before installing the nvidia stuff.

-Aaron Peterson

[Air-Op]

Grr the problem was that my mouse and keyboard died when I loaded X, startx or gdm

they all came up though!

with startx I got twm with 3 windows.. and a clock... but my mouse was gone.

with gdm, I got the blinking cursor... but my mouse didn't work.

I think the clock in twm would have continued working...

I also have a pci TNT2 installed on my machine. that I didn't bother to configure

note, the keyboard appeard DEAD, no LED lights, no control anything that I could think of, the led on my mouse went dead when x started.

-AP

[Tiganu]

PS2 keyboard / mouse ?

What config do you have in XFree ?

Also look for errors in /var/log/XFree86.0.log.

You can also test X, just init stuff no real sreen, with

[thing_q3]

I'm having the same problem. I was never able to install my mouse, but what's worse is that every time i load X (startx or XFree86), the keyboard seems to die and i have to do a cold reboot.

I have an ibm usb optical mouse with a ps2 adapter, but neither interface worked. When i loaded the usb mouse modules (input, hid, mousedev, uhci, etc) the kernel log showed that the mouse had been detected and assigned, but cat /dev/input/mice didn't return anything.
When using the ps2 adapter, i cat /dev/psaux, which returned nothing AND caused my keyboard to lock up as well. So could this have something to do with the ps2 mouse and keyboard interfaces interferring with eachother? seems really strange...

using ck-sources with:
msi kt3 ultra mobo (ms-6380e)
amd athlon xp 2100+
256 megs ram
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[Tiganu]

In my case the USB mouse goues to:

[thing_q3]

Apparently it was just a mouse problem, with the ps2 interfaces of the mouse and keyboard conflicting or something. I managed to install the usb mouse (forgot to install input support for hid in the kernel *pounds head against wall*), and now the keyboard works just fine in X .

note to Air-op "ran XF86config and told it to do auto mouse": i don't think xf86config will detect usb mice, especially if you don't have the usb modules. Just install the modules, and make sure the mouse works before you load X (ie cat /dev/input/mouse0 or /dev/psaux, depending). If you did an autoconf of the mouse, xf86 would have probably assigned it to /dev/mouse which points to /dev/psaux, which I think may also be used for the keyboard ?? and that's what's causing the conflict. Anyway, hope that helps.
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[slurve]

Got the same problem - machine was working fine 2 days ago...powered it down and now nothing. Keyboard works, can use it on bootloader. once x starts, machine hangs, then finally loads x.

I tried doing an fsck on the root file system since it was saying that was mounting as read only....

[wjholden]