Problem with kbd and mouse 'disappearing' after first disk of 8.0 install is complete
The keyboard and mouse do not work after the first disk has been
installed and a reboot occurs. If no reboot, just the mouse goes away
until the end of the install, then once you reboot, the keyboard is
'gone' too.
Note the keyboard works in bios and in lilo screens, but goes away after
kernel running.
System specs
Asus A7M266-D MB
Athlon 2400+ MP (One processor only)
512 MB PC2100 Registered ECC memory (ATP)
Sony CDU5211 CDROM
WD 40GB HD
Sapphire Rage 128 Ultra AGP 32M
Logitech optical usb mouse
Mitsumi keyboard
Intel Pro 1000MT Server Adapter
Installing SuSE 8.0 (problem exists after patching to latest as well)
I am trying 8.1 right now, but we have not qualified it yet... so if it
works there will still be more work.
NOTE: I have installed 6 other systems with this hardware configuration
successfully (with working kbd and mouse) and I have installed about
50-75 total systems with this os/package combo.
Install process....
SuSE install
partition 1 1GB swap
partition 2 rest of disk / reiserfs
Package selection -> detailed selection
select all 'groups' except games
search replace sendmail with postfix
search add devfsd
search to make sure k_deflt is being installed as there are issues with
k_smp for some code we are working on (using k_athlon on 8.1 test)
Go with install.
Complete it, run following script to turn off unneeded server processes
(yes I know I installed postfix and turned it off :) ) and to set
initial time and enable ntp
#!/bin/bash
# script to turn off unneeded stuff for chkconfig for SuSE 8
mv /etc/ntp.conf /etc/ntp.conf.orig
echo "server 10.0.16.2" > /etc/ntp.conf
/usr/sbin/rcxntpd start
chkconfig xntpd on
chkconfig alsasound off
chkconfig boot.crypto off
chkconfig boot.isapnp off
chkconfig boot.lvm off
chkconfig boot.md off
chkconfig boot.quota off
chkconfig isdn off
chkconfig nscd off
chkconfig personal-firewall.final off
chkconfig personal-firewall.initial off
chkconfig postfix off
chkconfig splash off
chkconfig splash_early off
chkconfig splash_late off
Any clues as to why this may not be working?
--
Jeff Graham
More information
SuSE 8.1 with k_athlon and basically the same steps, works just fine.
Could this be an issue with the processor actually being at 2.0GHz? It
is possible that the other machines were only 2200+MP's. I will check
into it. I know there are some things out there that do not like it at
2.0GHz or above, things like IOMeter (without patching) and such. Maybe
there is a 32 bit int value in some keyboard code or something?
Everything works well under 8.1 for now.
Very very strange.
Ideas welcome.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Graham [mailto:jgraham@silverbacksystems.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 4:55 PM
To: suse-linux-e@suse.com
Subject: [SLE] Problem with kbd and mouse 'disappearing' after first
disk of 8.0 install is complete
The keyboard and mouse do not work after the first disk has been
installed and a reboot occurs. If no reboot, just the mouse goes away
until the end of the install, then once you reboot, the keyboard is
'gone' too.
Note the keyboard works in bios and in lilo screens, but goes away after
kernel running.
System specs
Asus A7M266-D MB
Athlon 2400+ MP (One processor only)
512 MB PC2100 Registered ECC memory (ATP)
Sony CDU5211 CDROM
WD 40GB HD
Sapphire Rage 128 Ultra AGP 32M
Logitech optical usb mouse
Mitsumi keyboard
Intel Pro 1000MT Server Adapter
Installing SuSE 8.0 (problem exists after patching to latest as well)
I am trying 8.1 right now, but we have not qualified it yet... so if it
works there will still be more work.
NOTE: I have installed 6 other systems with this hardware configuration
successfully (with working kbd and mouse) and I have installed about
50-75 total systems with this os/package combo.
Install process....
SuSE install
partition 1 1GB swap
partition 2 rest of disk / reiserfs
Package selection -> detailed selection
select all 'groups' except games
search replace sendmail with postfix
search add devfsd
search to make sure k_deflt is being installed as there are issues with
k_smp for some code we are working on (using k_athlon on 8.1 test)
Go with install.
Complete it, run following script to turn off unneeded server processes
(yes I know I installed postfix and turned it off :) ) and to set
initial time and enable ntp
#!/bin/bash
# script to turn off unneeded stuff for chkconfig for SuSE 8
mv /etc/ntp.conf /etc/ntp.conf.orig
echo "server 10.0.16.2" > /etc/ntp.conf
/usr/sbin/rcxntpd start
chkconfig xntpd on
chkconfig alsasound off
chkconfig boot.crypto off
chkconfig boot.isapnp off
chkconfig boot.lvm off
chkconfig boot.md off
chkconfig boot.quota off
chkconfig isdn off
chkconfig nscd off
chkconfig personal-firewall.final off
chkconfig personal-firewall.initial off
chkconfig postfix off
chkconfig splash off
chkconfig splash_early off
chkconfig splash_late off
Any clues as to why this may not be working?
--
Jeff Graham
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