Re: FC1->FC3: USB mouse + mousewheel no longer working

[James Wilkinson]

Gerrit wrote:
> this morning, I upgraded from Fedora Core 1 to Fedora Core 3.
> My mouse is no longer working.
> I have a Microsoft 2-button USB Wheel mouse.

So do I (mine's optical), and it's working fine.
> With 'system-config-mouse',
> I selected "Generic - Wheel Mouse (USB)". /etc/sysconfig/mouse reads:
>
> FULLNAME="Generic - Wheel Mouse (USB)"
> MOUSETYPE="imps2"
> XEMU3="no"
> XMOUSETYPE="IMPS/2"
> DEVICE=/dev/input/mice

Mine is identical.
> The relevant part of /etc/X11/xorg.conf reads:
>
> Section "ServerLayout"
>    Identifier     "Default Layout"
>    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
>    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
>    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
>    InputDevice    "DevInputMice" "AlwaysCore"

I don't have this line...
> EndSection
>
> Section "Files"
>
> (...)
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>    Identifier  "Mouse0"
>    Driver      "mouse"
>    Option	    "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
>    Option	    "Device" "/dev/psaux"
>    Option	    "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
>    Option	    "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>
> # If the normal CorePointer mouse is not a USB mouse then
> # this input device can be used in AlwaysCore mode to let you
> # also use USB mice at the same time.
>    Identifier  "DevInputMice"
>    Driver      "mouse"
>    Option	    "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
>    Option	    "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
>    Option	    "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
>    Option	    "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
> EndSection

I don't have this section.

Try system-config-display --reconfig. It might help to boot into
runlevel 3 to do this (append 3 to the kernel... line in grub).

Hope this helps,

James.