Installed Mandrake 8.2 last night, everything is fine except for my serial mouse.
I set up Mandrake to boot into X (runlevel 5) w/ autologin feature enabled, that's everytime it starts, it logs right into my user account, in such a way that I dont have to type in my username/passwd.
However, after a successful login and session, and when I logout my mouse cursor just freezes! I will have to restart the machine and autologin again.
My mouse is a serial /dev/ttyS0 or on com 1.
Thanx.
Last edited by dysharmonic; 10-17-2002 at 07:01 AM.
Isn't it strange the onset of overheating will result in freezing?
I have had the same problem. mine started when I replaced my PS2 keyboard with a USB one. I have had the problem since. When I had both a PS2 keyboard and mouse it did not happen. Unfortunately I am too much of a newbie to tell you why it is happening, or how to fix it. I do on the other hand have a way around this problem. When I go into the login screed the mouse is frozen. I hit ctrl alt F1 then I hit Ctrl alt F7. It brings up the login screen and 8.2. I know this is annoying to have to do this but it will work. At least it did for me .
gpm is a program that provides mouse support at the console (non-X). I've heard of it cuasing problems in the past, although I don't remember the exact problems.
You may want to try disabling it and see if it makes a difference.
Other than that, the only other thing I can thing of is maybe you have some sort of hardware conflict with IRQs. However were this the case I think the mouse would freeze up right after boot.
i have the same problem in Mandrake 9 , the first login i do the mouse works fine , when i log out to switch to root or another user my ps wheel mouse locks up , then i have to reboot and i get no errors at all , its very anoying since i have no clue what to do about it ..
This is a cheap 2-button mouse, chosen to emulate as a 3-button during installation.
I'm not sure if its protocol is M$. What does it mean anyway?
I tried disabling M$ protocol , but startx gave an error no core pointer
Disabling DPMS (off) still locked my mouse.
I have disabled autologin feature so now, Mandrake boots to the login screen (runlevel 5).
And my mouse locks up right at the login screen.
Earlier (w/ autologin enabled), Mdk booted into my user account, and mouse worked fine until I logged out.
There's a way to get around this prob (but kinda cheating); i.e to boot to runlevel 3 and from the prompt login as usual. Whenever I logout, I'll be dropped back to the login prompt; login :