wicked_chaos
09-08-2002, 03:50 PM
I have the PS/2 converter on my MS Optical mouse, and set RedHat up when i installed it to use PS/2...it works great in linux, the mouse cursor comes up and everything!.. but once i do startx it loads KDE and once it gets to peripherals it blinks a few times, and then my whole computer freezes... very nervracking, as i just want to get into xwindows =/... and everytime i do those tests to see if my resolution is fine for xwindows, my mouse works there too! so why would loading peripherals make it freeze my comp? =/
Thanks!
matrixcubed
09-08-2002, 06:13 PM
I had similar problems, that the mouse worked in the CLI but not in X. I came across this blerb on
http://jgo.local.net/LinuxGuide/:
andres salomon wrote in to say that if your PS/2 mouse doesn't work in X but works in normal text mode, you should try killing the GPM mouse services (killall gpm as root should do the trick). He also mentioned a workaround, which he didn't successfully use. It's adding /dev/gpmdata to /etc/X11/XF86Config, supposedly, and starting GPM with the "-R" flag.
I haven't tried it yet, but if you check out the list of things (http://linuxnewbie.org/forum/showthread.php?threadid=63308) I have tried, maybe it will save you some headaches.
(Trust me, these headaches are killer!)