Little Help?

[JJ Neff]

OOOH 

When all seems lost start at the beginning.....

The timing of the mouse stopping was too perfectly aligned with the sound card
working so the natural assumption is that the two must have something to do
with one another.

After all the careful testing and advice I realized that if the mouse was
sending input at all, I should get a response at least at init 3 with gpm.

I went back and checked all cables and realized that the only other thing that
changed while getting the sound to work was moving the speaker cable from my
windows box to my linux box and back again, and in so doing loosening the mouse
cable from the KVM switch !!!!!!

Well even looking at the wrong thing is educaitonal, I feel (besides silly)  a
lot more knowledgeable about lspci, lsmod, rmmod, insmod, and /proc and the
soundcard setup.  All good things.  I just wish I hadnt wasted a day trying to
figure out why my blasted mouse wouldn't work !

Thanks to all who offered advice...

JJN
--- Robert Dege <rdege at cse.Buffalo.EDU> wrote:
> 
> I wonder if the kernel modules are not being loaded when gpm is being
> started.  do an /sbin/lsmod & see what's running.
> 
> What a 2.4 kernel, you should have 2 key modules loaded....  input &
> mousedev.  If they are not there, load them manually, and them restart
> gpm.
> 
> Oh, I believe that the BIOS reserves IRQ 3 & 4 for the serial (upon
> config), but they won't appear in /proc/interrupts until the serial kernel
> module is loaded.
> 
> -Rob
> 
> > On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, JJ Neff wrote:
> >
> > > No mouse does not work in console after starting gpm.  Everytime I
> restart gpm
> > > or run mousedrake to set mouse protocal and gpm restarts it fails
> stopping and
> > > then starts OK but NO mouse in console even after "starting" gpm.
> >
> > Just checking, but by console, I mean virtual terminals 1- & not a
> > terminal emulator in X - try killing off X & doing it from there...
> >
> > --
> > Mark T. Valites
> > Unix Systems Analyst
> > CIT - SUNY Geneseo
> > >--))> >--))>
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 
> Dege
> 
> So Many Things in Life Would Be Really Funny
> .... If They Weren't Happening To Me
> 


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