oh great, that should be fixable.

The mouse moves.
So it's not locked up.
It sounds like the keyboard.
Do the mouse buttons still work? I guess not.

What kind of keyboard are you using?

what kind of mouse?

looks like a rage video. I have one on my laptop, works great

yeah i have a rage video card, my keyboard is a one of those M$ natural keyboards and my mouse is a PS/2 serial intellimouse by M$.

you're right i still have mouse movement, but i can't click on anything.

i do know that when i log onto the computer i get several mouse errors but i'm able to use it just fine once i'm in KDE. (it just assumes default which works fine)

you may be able to setup gpm for your mouse and solve the problem

gpm -R -m /dev/input/mice -t imps2


then in your XF86Config-4 or XF86Config file use this in the InputDevice section for your mouse

Option "Protocol" "MouseSystems"
Option "Device" "/dev/gpmdata"

OK i will! i'll try that once i get home tonight. what does gpm do just out of curiosity?

thanks again

gpm will enable your mouse in the console

the -R lets you access it in X using /dev/gpmdata and the MouseSystems protocol

i'm getting this when trying to use gpm

[root@diebenkorn sbin]# gpm -R -m /dev/input/mice -t imps2
[root@diebenkorn sbin]# oops(): [gpn.c(195)]:
gpm is already running as pid 980

it appears it already working. should i just go ahead and make the other changes to the XF86Config-4 file

this is how my XF86Config-4 looks at the moment. where should i add that code. just want to make sure. thanks again!

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard1"
Driver "Keyboard"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
Option "XkbOptions" ""
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

it's not likely that it is running with the right settings to use it as I have posted above

you could run gpm -k first to kill it

or you might just try it and see if your mouse will work after changin XF86Config-4 file

well i killed gpm and started up gpm as defined per you, but nothing caught my untrained eye (i didn't know what i was supposed to look for anyway

i modifed XF86Config-4 as you said, but when i started X Server my mouse didn't work so i had to change it back.

any ideas?

thanks!

you put the options in Mouse1 section?

It should work, I have more than one setup that way

yeah i believe so. i placed it in the code you see above under mouse1. if the code is changed, doesn't it need to change elsewhere to perhaps?

no that should be it

does your mouse work in the terminal before starting X

and it's a usb mouse, right?


make sure you have /dev/input/mice

yeah my mouse only stopped working when i restarted ( i assume the changes where only made active then). i don't have a usb mouse, its a M$ PS/2 wheel mouse.