[SGVLUG] FC 5 no mouse

[Don Saxton]

Cool! Usb mouse works! I wonder what that means?
in bios usb keyboard is disable (cant find separate usb mouse in bios).
hardware conflict? It has a eth0 and a wireless card.

Greg Stark wrote:

>Don,
>Is it possible for you to try a USB mouse on this box?
>Greg Stark
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>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
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>Subject: Re: [SGVLUG] FC 5 no mouse
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>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.
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>I have a line in dmesg starting "mice: ps/2 mouse..." but when I look at 
>lsmod, I see nothing mouse like.
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>At least I am sure I don't know what I am looking for.
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>Claude Felizardo wrote:
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>>On 4/4/06, Don Saxton <dsaxton at pacbell.net> wrote:
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>>>ok, I got me in a bunch over this.
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>>>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.
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>>>mouse is connected to the ps2 plug and I have tried two m$ mice. Both
>>>worked on FC 3.
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>>>dmesg happily reports mice: ps/2 mouse...
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>>>at this point I am lost. What make a mouse run?
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>>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?
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>>I've got an entry that looks like this:
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>>Section "InputDevice"
>>   Identifier "Mouse1"
>>   Driver "mouse"
>>   Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
>>   Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
>>   Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
>>EndSection
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>how about gpm?
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