My keyboard and mouse freeze after boot
 

Hi all.
I've a "little" problem (:cry: )
Today I started my computer with Slack 9.1, kernel 2.4.26, and after LILO menu and booting sequence, my keyboard and mouse freeze at login prompt!!! Yesterday all worked fine, and I didn't change nothing!
I've a keyboard and mouse PS/2.

The curous thing s that at lilo menu they work! With a live cd I can login. But if I try to start window manager (fluxbox) of live cd, keyboard and mouse freeze again!!!

Please, help me!!!

I don't know what can I do!!

Best regard
Groucho

They freeze at a X login prompt or console?

No. They freeze at prompt. I can't start X console (my system starts in at prompt)

Thanks

Try booting with a live cd, mount your slack partition at /mnt, and do: chmod -x /mnt/etc/rc.d/rc.gpm
Reboot and see what happens.

Instead of booting the live CD, try this...

At your lilo prompt, enter:

linux init=/bin/bash

You might have to change linux with whatever lilo knows your kernel as. This will boot your system bare, with just your root partition read-only. Then,

mount -o remount,rw /

Then go to /etc/rc.d and try disablling rc.gpm as gbonvehi says. You might also want to check over some of the other startup files. When done:

mount -o remount,ro /

And reboot the box.

-Bill

I'll try your solution.
Thanks

Hi.
My box starts with keyboard support!!!
Do you know now what can I do for repair my gpm configuration? I have to update my package?

Regards
Groucho

I've tried to manually restart gpm and my system freeze again.
I've an updated version of package.

What can it depend on?

Thanks

My box freeze also when I try to start X. Once fluxbox started mouse and keyoard freeze (gpm now is off!)

:cry:

Please help me to solve this problem.
Thanks

Nice to know at least console is working :)

Try editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf and change where it says Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" to Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"

Nothing to do!
I've made changes you told me but mouse and keyboard on fluxbox freeze.
I've gpm running well with /dev/psaux and -t ps2
xorg.conf has the same configuration but X freezes.

Best regards

Try another mouse. Borrow one if you can. Sounds like a hardware failure, since you said that everything was working fine one day, then not the next.

-Bill

I've changed the mouse. All works fine...
Thank for your patience...

Regards