Woody soundcard/mouse conflict hangs X?
 

I've been using Woody pretty successfully on my work machine (older hardware). I'm used to using Mandrake at home, so some of the configuration required by Debian is new to me. I've slogged my way through it to get it up and running _almost_ perfectly.

One issue I have is that when I boot X-windows crashes. To solve it, I have to log in as root and "rmmod cs4232" -- once I remove the soundcard driver, then it starts fine. And, after loading up X I can insmod cs4232 and the soundcard works perfectly. I suspect there is some sort of conflict with the mouse because I get some peculiar mouse-related errors displayed just before it crashes.

Is there a was to reconfigure the mouse or soundcard so I don't have to go through the rmmod/insmod every time I boot? I'd guess its probably a simple solution - but I'm new at this, so bear with me! :)

What other information do you need (log files?)

Here's a part of my XF86 log.

(II) Keyboard "Generic Keyboard" handled by legacy driver
(**) Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
(**) Configured Mouse: Protocol: "PS/2"
(**) Option "CorePointer"
(**) Configured Mouse: Core Pointer
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
(==) Configured Mouse: Buttons: 3
(**) Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" (**) Configured Mouse: Emulate3Buttons, Emulate3Timeout: 50
(**) Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" (**) Configured Mouse: ZAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5
(**) Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
(**) Generic Mouse: Protocol: "ImPS/2"
(**) Option "SendCoreEvents" "true" (**) Generic Mouse: always reports core events
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice
No such device. (EE) Generic Mouse: cannot open input device (EE) PreInit failed for input device "Generic Mouse"
(II) UnloadModule: "mouse" (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Configured Mouse" (type: MOUSE)

That error seems related to autoprobing for existing mice. To reconfigure X you can run xf86config, or you can edit by hand /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.
If you have recent hardware, I would recommend upgrading to sarge with Xfree4.2

Okay, I'll try that. I think I'll comment out the "Generic Mouse" bit becuase it looks like the "configured mouse" entry works.

Just curious, would XFree 4.2 improve my performance? I have pretty old hardware (AMD K-6 333mHz with onboard SIS video)...yes, I know its ugly but I plead poverty! I'm afraid to upgrade to KDE 3.0 since 2.2 seems to work pretty smooth - won't it bog me down?

I'll see if editing XF86 works after I finish compiling WIne

I suppose woody is new enought to deal with your hardware, I thought being your work machine older, the home one was new.
While I think gnome 2.4 is much faster than 1.x, I'm not sure the same rule applies to kde.
However a 333Mhz is not that bad: I have a p2-400MHz-192MB serving 3 concurrent users without a flow.