rawhide, no mouse and no way to configure wifi via text install

Adam Williamson adamwill at fedoraproject.org
Thu Jan 15 04:57:41 UTC 2015


On Wed, 2015-01-14 at 20:00 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_22_Rawhide_20141222_Installation
> 
> 
> When I grab this boot.iso and boot it, the mouse/trackpad doesn't 
> work. There is an arrow but it doesn't move. And the touch screen 
> doesn't work either. With live media, it does work. So I'm not sure 
> what's going on but that's kinda busted and I'm not sure what
> component to report against.

Well, if that's all you have to go on usually guess evdev or synaptics 
I guess, but best look through the journal at least and see if you can 
see any clues as to what's going on?

> So then I thought, OK I'll try a text install and presumably with a 
> real DE the mouse will work seeing as it's fine with F21 with the 
> same kernel used with this rawhide boot.iso. But with text installer 
> there's no way to configure wifi. And even though it says at the 
> bottom of the screen 2:shell, a control-alt-f2 does nothing, I can't 
> get to a shell. The keyboard otherwise works. If I could get to a 
> shell then I could use nmcli but now I've hit a brick wall and I'm 
> not sure if this is expected to work. If so, it's probably an 
> anaconda bug yeah?

Yeah, VT switch is supposed to work in a test install. Can you check 
if it's the same in a VM?

Thanks!
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