gpm won't let my mouse/keyboard work in slackware
 

I just installed slackware 10.2, everything installed fine, but when I get to the login prompt my keyboard does not work. I searched around and found that gpm might be the problem. I could not figure out the proper way to fix this so I just booted into knoppix and I renamed rc.gpm so that it could not be loaded. After doing this my keyboard works, but then when I got to startx it no longer works. I have tried starting gpm and then starting x but it still does not work. I have used this same mouse and keyboard with an installation of slackware before but I don't know why it's not working this time. I may have used a different mouse driver before I'm using the imps/2 driver now. My mouse is a usb mouse and I have a ps/2 keyboard.

Check your plugging.
It may be an IRQ problem too.

I switched the mouse to another usb slot and even tried just unplugging it and the keyboard still does not work when gpm is loaded.

Strange. Did you move the HD from another PC?

I took the hdd from an old hp, why would that matter? I have since reformated it.

I disabled acpi in the bios with after gpm is loaded my keyboard works, but still whenever I startx it no longer works. Don't know if that helps with anything, it just makes me more confused.

edit: is the imps/2 the correct mouse driver to be using for a usb mouse?

It depends of the mouse. A standard logitech 2 buttons + wheel/button is imps/2.
A 2 buttons is ps/2, etc...
If you totally reformated your hd and used new config files so it don't matter.
Maybe try to play with your bios IRQ parameters.

I found out the problem I just had to change it from /dev/mouse to /dev/input/mouse0 in xorg.conf and now it works fine. Also it had nothing to do with the acpi setting in the bios I didn't realize I had changed something else when I did this also. Thanks for the help on this. Now to figure out my many other problems lol.