keyboard and mouse conflict

daos · n00b Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 50 Location: Virginia, USA

I just had a new machine (Pentium 4, 1.8ghz). I transfered Gentoo system from my old hard disk to the new hard disk (using a CDROM rescue disk). My Gentoo system on my old machine works fine. On the new machine, whenever I go to X, the mouse is frozen. There are a few times, the mouse is not frozen, but the keyboard does not response when I type to the X terminal. When I exit X (to the command line mode), if the mouse works in X, then the keyboard is frozen (nothing on screen when typing on keyboard). I notice that if I unplug and replug the keyboard, I can type again using keyboard. It looks like there is conflict between the mouse and keyboard in X.
I try to recompile (emerge) X and the kernel but the problem still exists.
I Windows 98 (re-install on the new machine), the mouse works fine.
Is there anyone has a similar problem?
Thanks

karl11 · Guru Joined: 25 Jun 2002 Posts: 469 Location: Raleigh, NC

While you might not want to hear it, the error is most likely in /etc/X11/XF86Config

Run xf86config on your new machine and keep working with that until you get the keyboard and mouse to work. My guess is that the configuration of your new system is different than that of the old system, and thus needs to be updated.

Karl