Bug 49766

Summary:	Selecting wrong mouse makes keyboard not work
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Anders Carlsson <andersca>
Component:	XFree86	Assignee:	Mike A. Harris <mharris>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Version:	7.3
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Description Anders Carlsson 2001-07-23 19:21:56 UTC

During the installation I made a mistake and selected that my mouse was of
type PS/2 instead of USB which is the correct type. 

When I later started X the mouse wouldn't work, nothing strange about that
since I chose the wrong type. What's strange is that the keyboard didn't work.

I rebooted and ran XConfigurator, and when XConfigurator starts X to check
the configuration I got the same thing. Neither the mouse nor the keyboard
worked. When X exited and I got back to XConfigurator I found that the
keyboard didn't work even _after_ X exited.

Seems like X is trying to detect the PS/2 mouse and screws up the keyboard
by sending some weird data to it or something.

Comment 1 Glen Foster 2001-07-23 21:18:28 UTC

This defect is considered SHOULD-FIX for Fairfax.

Comment 2 Mike A. Harris 2001-07-27 01:46:49 UTC

What mouse (brand/model) do you have?  Also, what keyboard do you have?
Is your keyboard PS/2, AT, or USB?

This problem is sufficiently bizarre IMHO that I need much more detailed
information.  Can you create an X server log by running X configurator,
and then attaching /var/log/XFree*.log (all of em) to this report?

Please attach your configuration file as well, and a copy of your
/var/log/messages (trimmed if necessary to be <= 200k or so, we just
want the bottom of it preferably with kernel boot messages).

Also, are you using a Red Hat binary kernel, or a home built kernel?

Comment 3 Mike A. Harris 2001-09-02 04:58:43 UTC

Closing bug due to lack of information.