Xwindow sytem: no mouse, no keyboard, please help
For the time being I have given up on getting my ATI Radeon graphics card to work under XFree86 4.0.2 I am now trying to set up the Xwindow system using the lowest and most standard settings: Standard VGA monitor settings 640 X 480, 16-color mode, 2 megs. of video ram, etc. When I choose standard /dev/mouse setting and start Xwindow system, all my mouse does is flicker across the top of the screen when I move it, and my keyboard ceases to function. When I choose /dev/ttyS2 mouse setting and start Xwindow system, my mouse does not function at all, and keyboard also does not function. I am using Suse 7.0 Professional. My mouse is a standard Mitsumi mouse with a PS/2 interface. It has 3 buttons, the middle one being a scroll button that you can either push up or down. My keyboard is a simple 101 key standard board with a PS/2 interface. Can anyone point me in the right direction to fix these things. Also, if you have any suggestions for a decent graphics card that will work with XFree 3.3.6, I would greatly appreciate it. I am thinking of wiping out my current installation of Suse 7.0 and starting over from scratch using XFree 3.3.6. Thank you for your time and help. Mike Flug michael.flug@snet.net
On January 28, 2001 12:24 pm, mhf wrote:
For the time being I have given up on getting my ATI Radeon graphics card to work under XFree86 4.0.2
I am now trying to set up the Xwindow system using the lowest and most standard settings: Standard VGA monitor settings 640 X 480, 16-color mode, 2 megs. of video ram, etc.
When I choose standard /dev/mouse setting and start Xwindow system, all my mouse does is flicker across the top of the screen when I move it, and my keyboard ceases to function.
I am using Suse 7.0 Professional. My mouse is a standard Mitsumi mouse with a PS/2 interface. It has 3 buttons, the middle one being a scroll button that you can either push up or down. My keyboard is a simple 101 key standard board with a PS/2 interface.
I don't know about the keyboard but my mouse is a logitech with a scroll button. Sax2 kept trying to set the thing to PS/2. That wouldn't work. Setting it to IMPS/2 worked just fine. I think Sax2 has an expert mode that lets you override anything it might think is right. Nick
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When I choose /dev/ttyS2 mouse setting and start Xwindow system, my mouse does not function at all, and keyboard also does not function.
A standard ps/2 mouse is /dev/psaux. It may be /dev/pointer0 or /dev/mouse, if they are symbolic links to /dev/psaux. Have you tried the new sax2, located at ftp2.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/X/Xfree86/XFree86-4.0.2-SuSE/suse70/sax2/sax2-4.1-105.i386.rpm? Also, have you tried xf86config4 and worked through the graphics card and mouse sections there? Ed Harrison SuSE 6.4, Kernel 2.4.0, X 4.0.2, IBM JDK 1.1.8 or Warp 4, FP12 or Windows98 (running in vmware 2.0.3 for fun) PolarBarMailer 1.1.19a
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