[SMAUG] RE: [off-list] Re: Caldera Workstation 3.1

[Rick Moen]

begin Calvin Chu quotation:

> Here's the situation:
> /dev/mouse -> /dev/psaux
> 
> when I run gpm, it will instantly lock up the keyboard.  I am now connected
> to the machine externally through ssh so I know the machine is still
> running.  If I do a gpm -k to kill the gpm process it unhangs the console.  
> 
> Next, I did a cat /dev/mouse
> if I do not move the mouse, I can ctrl-c and break out of it, no lock up.
> 
> If I move the mouse, then the keyboard immediately stops responding.  If I
> hit return a lot of times.....

That almost seems as if the keyboard and PS/2 port are set up in
hardware to share an IRQ or I/O base address.  Which would be very
bizarre.  

Of course, as I'm sure you've figured out, you can pass gpm various 
options on the command line.  Probably, you can be very specific about
what hardware resources to talk to.  I can't (easily) be more specific,
as I don't have gpm installed on this box.  Possibly, the
Keyboard-Console HOWTO would help (at the Linux Documentation Project,
http://www.linuxdoc.org/).

> It seems to me that X11 is probably configured correctly, but the /dev/mouse
> device is causing the console to freeze.

I suspect that whatever's screwed up about your mouse is also sabotaging
X.  (That is partially surmise, but it seems reasonable.)

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