Subject: Re: 2.0 -> 2.1 Upgrade on G3 Powerbook
From: John Schmidt (jas@netbrick.com)
Date: Tue Nov 06 2001 - 08:06:30 MST
On Tuesday 06 November 2001 06:14, you wrote:
> The upgrade completed successfully, but now I have no mouse.
> During boot, I see several lines mentioning it, they seem normal, ie I can
> make out mention of "adb". Then the pointer appears in the center of the
> screen. It won't move, and the system does not detect mouse movement or
> clicks from either the trackpad or the external adb mouse. They both worked
> during the installation, and I never had any problem with them under 2.0.
>
> I'm not sure where to look, or how to get there. I set it up with the
> graphical login, which contrary to the installation guide, does not offer
> the option of dropping to text mode. It boots into KDE fine, but that's
> useless without a mouse. The failsafe mode doesn't work because it
> apparently needs a mouse click to shift the focus to the console window. I
> have been unable to get the system to boot from the Tasty Morsels CD.
>
> So:
> 1) How can I boot to text mode?
> 2) What happened to the mouse, and how do I fix it?
I have the same problem, but this is with a ydl 2.0 but I upgraded the kde
rpms that Dan posted late August, early September. If you start at runlevel
5 which is the graphical login, your mouse is not available. However, if you
start in runlevel 3, and then do startx after logging in, the mouse appears.
This is an excerpt from my /etc/inittab where I use runlevel 3:
# Default runlevel. The runlevels used by RHS are:
# 0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
# 1 - Single user mode
# 2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have networking)
# 3 - Full multiuser mode
# 4 - unused
# 5 - X11
# 6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
#
id:3:initdefault: <----- Put in a 3 (it is a 5 for a graphical login)
# System initialization.
si::sysinit:/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit
You can boot into runlevel 3 by using kernel arguments. I use bootx, so I
just put in init 3 at the command line so you can then edit the /etc/inittab.
I don't know a workaround to get a mouse working with the new KDE and a
graphical login.
John Schmidt
jas@netbrick.com
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