[KLUG Members] Keyboard and mouse problems after Upgrading to Suse 9.2

[Mark Bystry]

you know, with all of those little glitches going on, i'd get in far enough to make some back ups 
and do a fresh (format) install of 9.2. i had a couple problems with X too when i first installed. 
however, another format and install fixed the problem. for some reason i had to install the bare 
minimum kde. once logged into the gui i could install the rest of the packages that i wanted. i 
thought perhaps the dell dimension 700cx that i was installing it one was starting to show it's age...

Mark Bystry
SuSE 9.2 Pro


Robert V. Kanaley wrote the following on 1/11/2005 4:28 PM:
> Happy New Years to all,
> 
> On my home computer I had some trouble when I tried to upgrade Suse 9.1
> Personal to Suse 9.2. I tried just upgrade installed components. That didn't
> work. Suse tried to get to run level 5 but there was no X installed. I
> switched to another consol and ran YAST2 in the non-gui mode. This time I
> did a full upgrade to 9.2. This seemed to work just fine. But, when I needed
> to grab some pictures off our digital camera I had to install a bunch of
> graphics packages. After doing this I was able to download and upload
> pictures, but the next time I booted the machine, the keyboard and mouse did
> not function as usual.
> 
>>From the desktop I could use my mouse to open any  panel app, but when I
> opened a consol, the key presses were all wrong. When I tried to shut the
> box down by clicking on the Suse logo, the cursor focus would very rapidly
> flicker from the bottom to the top of the menu. I could not get the mouse
> focus on the logout selection. Rather than kill the X server with
> Ctrl-Alt-Bkspace, I tried to use the keyboard. I pushed the Windows key to
> try to raise the menu over the Suse logo. This took me to a login prompt on
> tty6. Suddenly the keyboard worked fine. I was able to log in, run Midnight
> Commander and log back out. When I did an alt-F7 to go back to the gui the
> keyboard and mouse now worked as they should. The next boot I got the same
> behavior in the gui until I went to a different consol and logged in.
> 
> Before I wipe the partition and do a fresh install of 9.2, I thought I would
> ask if anyone had any ideas on what is going on here, and how I might fix
> this strange keyboard and mouse behavior.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Bob
> 
> Robert V. Kanaley
> Manager Information Systems
> Agdia, Inc.
> rvk at agdia.com
> http://www.agdia.com
> 
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