[Techtalk] Keyboard/mouse probs

[Rain]

I re-installed RedHat 7.3.  It boots into text mode but, still, when I go
into KDE or Gnome with startx the mouse doesnt work and I am failr sure that
the keyboard is not responding either

Roger

----- Original Message -----
From: "Pierre Fortin" <pfortin at pfortin.com>
To: <techtalk at linuxchix.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2002 3:59 PM
Subject: Re: [Techtalk] Keyboard/mouse probs


> On Tue, 11 Jun 2002 20:19:53 +0100 "Rain" <digitalrain at lineone.net> wrote:
>
> > I have a Twinhead laptop (model SLVX2-266TG) it is basically a 266 MHz
> > PII with 64 Meg ram.  I installed RedHat 7.2, all went well during the
> > installation using the graphical installer but on rebooting and then
> > going into KDE the mouse and keybaord wont work.  It is as if there is
> > some sort of conflict.  I tried installing Redmond Linux and the same
> > thing happened. I have installed now four times and everytime the same
> > thing happens.  Any idea where to start looking??
> > Many thanks
>
> At the LILO screen when booting starts, enter "linux 3" which will bring
> your machine up without X...  there, the mouse and keyboard should work in
> text mode.  If so, try starting X with "startx"...  if the mouse &
> keyboard work now, then we share a problem that I can't get anyone to look
> at (yet)...  in my case, only the mouse won't work if I let X start as
> part of the bootup; but it's fine if I startx...
>
> Pierre
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