mouse stops respondingForum: X and Fluxbox Topic: mouse stops responding started by: mikshaw Posted by mikshaw on Feb. 18 2005,16:58
Anyone know if there have been changes to the PS/2 mouse since version 0.9.1?I'm using the same backups in 0.9.3 that I used in 0.9.1 (liveCD), but now my mouse stops responding when i use these backups. There's nothing I can see which would affect the x server. ~/.xserverrc is identical, with the exception that output is redirected to a file rather than to /dev/null My backups are almost entirely just applications and application settings, which worked fine in 0.9.1...no system files are overwritten. I receive an error which I can't understand: Int 10h (0x4F08) failed: 0x034f (function call invalid in this video mode) This is the only thing I can think might lead to a solution. In ~/.xinitrc I use the xset b and xset +fp commands, but the mouse fails even without these commands. Switching back to fluxbox stable doesn't change things. I use non-busybox ls and free (in ~/bin, not /bin), and set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include /opt/lib in front of the default path(includes libs not found in DSL). This also worked fine in 0.9.1. /opt/bootlocal.sh (this worked in 0.9.1, and seems to still work): sudo chown dsl.staff /dev/tty1 #for screen sudo chmod 644 /var/log/messages sudo syslogd Nothing else touches the system to my knowledge...just a few applications placed in /opt Anyone have any ideas? Thanks. Posted by mikshaw on Feb. 18 2005,23:17
weird thing....I decided to copy my backups into DSL one at a time, restarting x and running any related scripts with each change. I ended up copying the whole lot into DSL with no problems. So what this tells me is maybe my backup archive was corrupted...i'll have to try it out again. Posted by mikshaw on Feb. 20 2005,03:36
even weirder....Wasn't a corrupt archive. I rebuilt the backup file and rebooted to the same result. Tried installing XFree86 with the same result. The weird thing is this.....I booted a clean DSL with no backup and installed the backup manually as a typical mydsl file, and it worked. I ran bootlocal and bash_profile just to make sure everything was set up the same way as in the regular backup, and it still worked. So the only thing i can think may be the problem is if the sequence of events might be important (but only for recent version of DSL?)...or maybe the backup system has become buggy. Posted by mikshaw on Feb. 26 2005,06:54
I think the problem was the mouse itself...seems like maybe it had a loose connection somewhere and just wasn't being detected every time. I had similar trouble with it in Slackware, and no matter what changes I made to Xorg.conf it still wasn't being detected half the time. So i plugged in a different mouse today and it seems like it's working so far.
Posted by timeless on Mar. 08 2005,10:43
I had the same problem.I figured it out by choosing "ps2 mouse" not "usb mouse" in the "xsetup.sh" |