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[sindi keesan <keesan AT SDF.ORG>]

On Thu, 1 Sep 2011, Ron Clarke wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>         I have an odd one here. My CD burner died and I had it replaced
> with a (second hand) DVD burner.
>
>         Then my mouse stopped responding (in X), either in DOS or any
> of the 4 Linux distros I have on this machine.

Can you try a different type of mouse, such as serial or USB instead of 
PS/2?

>         I got it running in DOS by loading the Microsoft driver instead
> of cutemouse, but it does not respond to movement in X on any of the
> Linux installations.
>
>         As a test, I loaded and ran a "live" cd of Knoppix, and it ran
> the mouse without any complaint.
>
> So....  the mouse is OK and connected properly.
>
>         My guess is that it has something to do with the interrupt that
> may have been disturbed by the new DVD.

My PS/2 mouse (in X) uses IRQ 12.  Less /proc/interrupts.  My IDE 
controllers use IRQ 14 and 15.  What IRQs do your devices use in the 
non-working installation of BL?  How about in Knoppix?

Shareware syschk will tell you the DOS interrupts - do they differ
when you use ctmouse and Windows mouse drivers?

Does the gpm mouse work (console)?  I don't have gpm on here.

Have you tried the full X, Xvesa, and framebuffer X?  Maybe one of them
will work better.

> Question: How do I go about re-setting the mouse in BL2 and BL3.5 ?
>
> Regards,
>        Ron

Sindi