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10-27-2003, 07:46 AM
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Registered: Aug 2003
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Proliant & Fedora/Suse 9.0 - why no mouse??
hi folks,
i got a nice presetn - a old compaq proliant 1600. so installed fedora - which went well - but i have no mouse. effect: i have a mouse while booting that i even can move, but as soon as i get on the login screen, the mouse cursor freezes in the middle of the screen.
so, i tried suse 9.0 - with the same effect.
The mouse is a Microsoft IntelliMouse Rev 1.2.A ps/2 (i installed the same driver)
Thank you for any help!
Cheers,
Roger
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10-27-2003, 08:45 AM
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Registered: Sep 2003
Location: Sweden
Distribution: Debian
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Try disabling gpm, if it's installed. The gpm driver (General Purpose Mouse, for using the mouse in console mode) has a tendency of screwing up when you use XFree86, especially if you have specified any other device driver for the mouse than gpm.
Håkan
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10-27-2003, 11:48 AM
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not installed
...gpm isn't installed at all...is this needed??
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10-27-2003, 02:16 PM
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No, it's not required. But I find it strange - you say you have a mouse until the login screen. Is this a graphic login screen or just the black and white terminal?
What mouse driver do you have specified in your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4?
Håkan
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10-28-2003, 01:30 AM
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it's the graphic login screen. the mouse is installed as a microsoft intellimouse 1.2A.
While booting fedora, there are 2 graphical screens, one ist just with the mouse cursor (yes, i can move the mouse here...) afterwards there is a kind of x-reset and the gui-login-screen prompts (no, here the mouse no longer works...)
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11-05-2003, 02:24 AM
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thx for any help.
- as i had a free usb-port, i installed the mouse now via usbhci (adaptor usb - 2 x ps/2): works fine!!
- and now the biggest: my power supply broke down!!! what a month :-(
Thx all for support!
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01-11-2004, 08:58 AM
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i've tried it, unfortunately, it didn't help. I'm getting now the following:
hub.c: new USB device 01:0a.0-1, assigned address 4
usb.c: USB device 4 (vend/prod 0x3f0/0x1411) is not claimed by any active driver.
thx in advance
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01-11-2004, 09:00 AM
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aah... sorry, this seems to be the working printer...
printer.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 4 if 0 alt 1 proto 2 vid 0x03F0 pid 0x1411
printer.c: v0.11: USB Printer Device Class driver
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01-11-2004, 09:01 AM
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still recognizing interface and all...still not working...definitively false driver, i think....
hub.c: new USB device 01:0a.0-2, assigned address 3
input: USB HID v1.10 Keyboard [MCT Corp. PS/2 - USB Interface Adaptor] on usb1:3.0
input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [MCT Corp. PS/2 - USB Interface Adaptor] on usb1:3.1
(output from dmesg)
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01-12-2004, 02:18 AM
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sorry - last 3 messages are in a false thread!
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05-17-2004, 02:40 PM
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Registered: May 2004
Location: Seattle
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So, I am confused. Did the installation of a USB mouse work for you?
I have a simlar problem, but with RH9 and a Proliant 1600 (PII 450 x 2); the system will not recognize a PS/2 mouse at all.
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