RE: Mouse no longer working after kernel upgrade
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Arnt Karlsen [mailto:arnt@c2i.net]
> Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2003 10:04 AM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Mouse no longer working after kernel upgrade
>
>
> On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 18:10:16 -0500,
> "DePriest, Jason R." <jrdepriest@ftb.com> wrote in message
> <[🔎] 03C99898510C8C47945B932907D99AAA16EF61@E2KMEMMCS1.ftbco.ftn.com>:
>
> > I have a Compaq ProLiant 1600 that was running the stock
> 3.0r1 kernel
> > (2.2.20-idepci).
> > I upgraded it via apt-get to 2.4.21-5-686-smp.
> >
> > While using 2.2.20-idepci, the mouse worked fine in X (using icewm).
> >
> > Since upgrading to 2.4.21-5-686-smp, the mouse no longer works. I
> > have tried two different PS/2 mice and a serial mouse.
> >
> > I have ran 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86' about 50 times.
> >
> > I ran 'modconf' and made sure the PS/2 input device module
> was loaded.
> >
> > There is no error. As a matter of fact, the mouse
> ~pointer~ is there
> > in the middle of the screen... it just doesn't move.
> >
> > If I use the LILO menu to boot back into the old kernel, the mouse
> > works again.
>
> ..good. Use that to verify gpm works in the console, then have X use
> /dev/gpmdata. The cute thing is you no longer have to restart X on
> re-plugging your rodents.
>
> ..with your new kernel and X reading /dev/gpmdata instead of some
> weird /dev/pissedoffaux, the problem reduces to get gpm working.
>
> ..you _could_ have gpm fighting X over the mouse, stalling it now.
>
> --
> ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-)
> ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
> Scenarios always come in sets of three:
> best case, worst case, and just in case.
>
I installed gpm to get the mouse working in console. It still didn't work.
At all.
I changed the default kernel to the old one in LILO and I am working fine
now.
I had to remove gpm because it was not playing nice with X.
I have changed my default distro to 'unstable' and run a dist-upgrade. The
kernel seems to be 2.2.20-compact.
The mouse is working normally with this kernel.
-Jason
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