Firstboot loses the mouse pointer?

Charles E Taylor IV tomalek at mindspring.com
Wed Nov 19 17:04:47 UTC 2003


On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 17:35:23 +0100
Martin Timm <mt at 7eins.net> wrote:

[Trackpoint stops working during "firstboot", works before and after]

> No, i had the same Problem using a Toshiba Satelite.
> I found out, that the problem depends on a bug in the XFree86 4.3.x
> support for S3 grafic chips. First i downgraded to version 4.2 of
> XFree86 and everything was fine. The update to the latest XFree86
> (4.3.0-2.90.43) also solves all mousepointer problems.

You *might* be describing a different problem here - we're talking about
the trackpoint not working ONLY in the "firstboot" application.  It works
fine during every other part of the installation, and during normal use. 
No X updates or downgrades are required to fix the problem outside of
"firstboot".

The Thinkpad 570E I can reprodce this problem on uses a Neomagic video
chipset.  From /proc/pci:

* VGA compatible controller: Neomagic Corporation NM2200 [MagicGraph
256AV] (rev 32).

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