Little Help?

[JJ Neff]

--- Conrad Kreyling <conrad at nerdland.org> wrote:
> A couple of things to check:
> 1) The mouse works somewhere else (seriously ... It's happened to me)

Mouse still works on Windows box just fine (shared 4 port switch.  tested
everything else, switch alwasy here nothing new adde but sound card)

> 2) `cat /proc/interrupts` check for anything NOT a PCI device sharing.
>     PCI devices can share them tho, so that's okay.

1-keybd
2-cascade
5-soundblaster
9-usb-uhci
11-eth0
14-ide0
15-ide1

I have serial ports set to 3 and 4 but they are not in use so I ssume they
wouldn't show up?

> 3) Make sure the block device "/dev/psaux" exists. Also, check to make
>     sure it's not in "/dev/misc/psaux" due to DevFS being loaded. If it
>     does, try `cat /dev/psaux` to see if you get output.
/dev/psaux is a symlink to /dev/misc/psaux, they are both present and both
return "no such device or address" when I try to cat them.

> 4) Check which mouse driver X is trying to use. Always helps.

Mouse driver is "mouse"
option protocal "MousemanPLusPS/2"
option device "/dev/psaux" 


> 
> Anyways, I'm kind of out of ideas. Tell me how that works out for ya.
> 
> Con
> 
> * JJ Neff (jjneff at yahoo.com) wrote:
> > I am running Mandrake 9 (new install) and I didn't setup completely as it
> is
> > just a test machine.  I finally went about getting everything working and
> this
> > included sound (I wanted to watch a VCD).  ISA sound card setup with
> sndconfig.
> >  Sound works.  LOST my mouse completely.  mouse is on screen but completely
> > unresponsive.  How do I check the memory settings of the PS2 port and sound
> > card.  I have changed the IRQ and mem addresses in the bis and the sndcofig
> > utility a few times with no change.  Looking to the experts to help me out.
>  I
> > figure I have a conflict but not sure how to check it.
> > 
> > This sound and mouse setup worked previously under Man8.2 and an upgrade to
> 9. 
> > this is a fresh install of 9.
> > 
> > JJN
> > 
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