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Posted: Feb. 18 2005,16:58 QUOTE

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.


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Posted: Feb. 18 2005,23:17 QUOTE

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.


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Posted: Feb. 20 2005,03:36 QUOTE

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.


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Posted: Feb. 26 2005,06:54 QUOTE

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.

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Posted: Mar. 08 2005,10:43 QUOTE

I had the same problem.

I figured it out by choosing "ps2 mouse" not "usb mouse" in the  "xsetup.sh"
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