[SGVLUG] FC 5 no mouse

[Greg Stark]

Don,
Is it possible for you to try a USB mouse on this box?
Greg Stark

-----Original Message-----
From: sgvlug-bounces at sgvlug.net [mailto:sgvlug-bounces at sgvlug.net] On Behalf
Of Don Saxton
Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 4:52 AM
To: SGVLUG Discussion List.
Subject: Re: [SGVLUG] FC 5 no mouse

mouseconfig was removed in fc5. The  reason given is that it is suppose 
to the mouse "automatically". My xorg.conf looks similar to yours except 
my protocol is "IMPS/2" which in the interest of science I changed to 
"auto" and I have a /dev/input/mice instead of /dev/mouse. Neither works 
but this must be something lower in the food chain because I also get no 
mouse in text mode (cntl-alt-f1).  If this was 30 years earlier, I would 
think that that is run by xterm, but now I don't know who runs the text 
mode terminal. Looking at xterm I didn't see anything that obviously 
fixed mice.

I have a line in dmesg starting "mice: ps/2 mouse..." but when I look at 
lsmod, I see nothing mouse like.

At least I am sure I don't know what I am looking for.

Claude Felizardo wrote:

>On 4/4/06, Don Saxton <dsaxton at pacbell.net> wrote:
>  
>
>>ok, I got me in a bunch over this.
>>
>>This machine had fedora core 3 with the mouse working. Now doing a fresh
>>install of FC 5 I get no mouse through the install process and none in
>>gnome. In gnome the mouse pointer is there but it doesn't move ( even
>>when I move the mouse ;) ).  Then I switch to text mode (runlevel 5) and
>>still have no mouse.
>>
>>mouse is connected to the ps2 plug and I have tried two m$ mice. Both
>>worked on FC 3.
>>
>>dmesg happily reports mice: ps/2 mouse...
>>
>>at this point I am lost. What make a mouse run?
>>    
>>
>
>Check your x11 config file.  on Mdk10.x, it's in /etc/X11/xorg.conf
>Maybe it's /etc/X11/XF86Config or something like that?
>
>I've got an entry that looks like this:
>
>Section "InputDevice"
>    Identifier "Mouse1"
>    Driver "mouse"
>    Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
>    Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
>    Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
>EndSection
>
>but there should be something else that lets you use the mouse when
>not in X.  I just can't think of it right now.
>
>do you have /usr/sbin/mouseconfig?  Or maybe that's a mdk thing but
>there should be a utility that will let you reconfig your mouse.  I
>remember there was one with redhat but its been so long since i've
>used RH.  Or maybe you can just find the utility for reconfiguring X.
>
>how about gpm?
>
>  
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