Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 40353
ps/2 mouse works during install but not after reboot
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:33:12 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686) Description of problem: Install of 7.1 goes fine. Mouse works even when testing X display. After install and the system is rebooted, the mouse does is not found. If line 5 from /etc/sysconf/mouse is deleted and mouseconfig (4.22) is run, it probes for the mouse but it can not find it. This is with a ps/2 mouse and a serial mouse. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. remove line 5 from /etc/sysconfig/mouse 2. Start mouseconfig 3. Expected Results: mouse should work. Since it does not, X can not start. Additional info: Configuration: DFI 400BX chipset motherboard. PIII 600. 256 Meg RAM, 2940U2W SCSI controller. GForce2 MX video card. PS/2 mouse, PS/2 keyboard
I found the soundcard I had (a Crystal 4232 chipset) was grabbing interrupt 12 where the ps/2 mouse has to be. Removing the sound card allowed the mouse to be found.
Can someone fix this bug please???? I have that problem too. It always complain device busy or not ready. I spent many days trying to work around it. This is very annoying. Next time, I will switch to another distribution. Cheers, M.
Soundcard drivers are not loaded during the install so that explains why you mouse probably worked fine during the install process but not afterwards. Can the sound card be configured to not use irq 12 or is it plug and play?
I have just completed a text mode interface for redhat-config-mouse, which means that mouseconfig will be deprecated in the next release of Red Hat Linux. Therefore, I will not be putting any development time towards fixing mouseconfig bugs, so I'm closing this as 'wontfix'.
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.