This isn't a big problem as such for me. But for windows users, moving to GNU/Linux (or GliNUx) possibly could be.
My mouse failed working properly, tonight and I was really surprised to see what redhat linux 9.0 was trying to do. Somehow, there was a dependency in starting the console mouse service, which failed, and in turn, disallowed the X to start :(
It asked me to attempt starting the X, and I tried a few times, assuming it would start without the mouse. It failed, and I quit. Shut the system, replaced a mouse (yes, I had a spare, won at a computer quiz competition in Ruia College ;) ) and restarted, and everything started working fine.
Now, since it was Redhat Linux 9.0, I assume the OS is older and would consider the non-availability a big issue and avoid starting the GUI.
However, do _newer_ and _different_ distro's face the same problem?
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Sometime on Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 06:17:11PM +0100, Roshan said:
Now, since it was Redhat Linux 9.0, I assume the OS is older and would consider the non-availability a big issue and avoid starting the GUI.
However, do _newer_ and _different_ distro's face the same problem?
I've tested this with around 20 times. Serial mouse doesnt get autoconfigured in Ubuntu (till breezy. didnt try with dapper). However doing a dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and selecting ttyS0 as mouse device fixes it.
Anurag
On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 18:17 +0100, Roshan wrote:
It asked me to attempt starting the X, and I tried a few times, assuming it would start without the mouse. It failed, and I quit. Shut the system, replaced a mouse (yes, I had a spare, won at a computer quiz competition in Ruia College ;) ) and restarted, and everything started working fine.
Looks like you have a bad hardware (mouse). Have you tried using this bad mouse with a Windows machine and observe the behavior?
However, do _newer_ and _different_ distro's face the same problem?
Newer distros will have newer versions of Xorg. Most of the distros have the Live CD/DVD option so you can put this bad mouse and observe how they react to this bad hardware.
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On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 18:17 +0100, Roshan wrote:
This isn't a big problem as such for me. But for windows users, moving to GNU/Linux (or GliNUx) possibly could be.
My mouse failed working properly, tonight and I was really surprised to see what redhat linux 9.0 was trying to do. Somehow, there was a dependency in starting the console mouse service, which failed, and in turn, disallowed the X to start :
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On Friday 20 October 2006 17:17, Roshan wrote:
However, do _newer_ and _different_ distro's face the same problem?
Yes. And the behavior is quite justified for a server class OS. The OS didnt halt, did it? It prevented XOrg from starting so that further complications could be avoided. I know it may not be the best way to tell the user that you shuold replace the mouse but still... :P
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