[SGVLUG] FC 5 no mouse

[David Lawyer]

On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 04:52:29AM -0700, Don Saxton wrote:
> 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.

Text mode doesn't have a mouse unless a program you run in text mode
supports a mouse and gpm is running.  gpm is often started by an init
script and runs as a daemon.

Who runs text mode?  Getty does at first since it puts a login prompt
on the terminal.  Then the login program takes over from getty and
lets you log in.  Then the bash shell takes over and runs the
terminal.  But I don't think that the bash shell knows anything about
the mouse.

> 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.

On my PC I show ps2mouse and mousedev modules.  This support could be built
into the kernel so you wouldn't need these modules.

			David Lawyer