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Just a strange thing that happened to me on a recent Gentus Linux install:
I can configure X upon install, however, I can not see the mouse cursor. The mouse is there (Dragging shows a box), but I have no idea where the mouse is. This has never happened before!!! :confused:
Could hardware be an issue here (i doubt it) I have a Logitech cordless optical mouse. Will try a different mouse tonight.
As always assistance is appreciated. This site rocks! ;)
ashleyfrazer
05-02-2001, 10:55 AM
I installed an ungrade to Red Hat 7.1 last night changing the mouse from PS2 to the USB port - the mouse is a Logitech. Everything went fine.
The RH update correctly detected the mouse but as I rebooted after the upgrade the change of hardware screen appeared asking me to accept removal of the PS2 mouse and the addition of the USB. I agreed and everything was fine. Does your mouse appear after you login in text mode?
One thing that didn't work straight away was X windows. The old config wouldn't work even though I had already upgraded to the latest KDE before I did the RH upgrade. I ran Xconfigurator (as root) and all was fine until it got to the mouse - at which point Xconfigurator exited. It still wrote a config file - tried the file anyway and bingo - all working. I wonder if the problem was the USB mouse? Can you try Xconfigurator?
I can also report that the installer on RH and X now work with my Savage3 graphics card (I got corruption on the screen before unless I set the accel to no_accel) The card is a GraphixStar 650 incase anyone has one and is wondering if it works.
Ashley
Thanks for the input ashleyfrazer, although I still dont see what the problem could be here. Perhaps I was not being clear.
The mouse transmitter is connected to the PS2 port, not the USB port. As for writing a config file, it is difficult to do so when there is no mouse in X-Windows. Seeing as this has never happened before with regular PS2 mice (non cordless) I dont see the connection. i.e. one day it worked fine, the next day it did not.
I do get a mouse in the non-graphical logon, however, I can not select anything (cursor just moves around the screen).
Anyway, hope this adds a little more information. I am not well versed in hardware configuration, so installing from scratch is always a long drawn out procedure. Perhaps I need to hit the NHF's on mouse config and X-Windows.
One more thing, I use Gentus because it is the only Distro capeable of detecting HDD's on my UDMA66 controller
Mobo: A-Bit BP-6 with a Highpoint 366 UDMA controller built in.
Does RH 7.1 support HPT 366 UDMA as well as USB?
ashleyfrazer
05-02-2001, 11:45 AM
Hi
No idea on RH supporting the standard you refer to - I guess check out the RH site.
If the cursor appears on the text screen and moves around I would suggest that the problem is X related rather than hardware and therefore changing the mouse will have no effect (having said that it will probably work now!) You write the config file using the text mode - Logon as Root and type Xconfigurator at the prompt. There are other ways of creating the file to (two but I dont rmember the commands offhand). I think you can use mouseconfig from the promt too - I am not sure if this will be in your distribution but its worth a try.
If your machine boots into the graphical front end you will need to pass a parameter at start up (I think something like init:3) but I hope someone out there can confirm this.
Ashley
Malakin
05-02-2001, 03:00 PM
Sounds like your mouse cursor just isn't being rendered, possibly a problem with your video drivers. Are you using XFree 4.x? If so you can turn off hardware accelleration of the cursor in the "/etc/X11/XF86Config-4" file there should be a line "Option 'sw_cursor'" that's commented out and you can just uncomment it.
Yes I was just thinking about this. Will be worth looking at after work.
I may have improperly specified the video memory on the video card setup. I wonder if I specified 32 MB rather than 16??? Hummm, wonder if that would cause rendering problems (i.e. memory overflow on the graphics processor).
Dohhh! :eek:
Yup, that got it! I configured X for 32MB of video memory, the card only had 16MB. There was not enough memory to render the mouse. Probably not enough to do a variety of things, just never had time to find them all. Anyway, thanks all for the help, will move on to bigger and better things with linux.
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