Firstboot loses the mouse pointer?

Mike Peterson mpeterson at mail.charlesfurniture.com
Wed Nov 19 18:48:51 UTC 2003


I have had it happen for me also.
On desktop systems.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brent Fox" <bfox at redhat.com>
To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 9:31 AM
Subject: Re: Firstboot loses the mouse pointer?


> On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 09:55, Charles E Taylor IV wrote:
> > On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 08:43:03 +0100
> > Peter Boy <pboy at barkhof.uni-bremen.de> wrote:
> >
> > [Thinkpad's Trackpoint doesn't work when "firstboot" starts after
> > installing Fedora Core 1]
> >
> > > Same here with my Thinkpad T40p. No problem with my IBM
Intellistation.
> >
> > > See:
> > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=100497
> >
> > > Red Hat closed the bug because they could not reproduce it.
> > > Unfortunately a lot of others can  :-)
> >
> > Thinkpad 570E here.  The exact same thing happened - the mouse
> > (Trackpoint) doesn't work in "firstboot", but it works everywhere else
in
> > the installation process and also when the system boots normally.
> >
> > It's not a showstopper, because you can navigate "firstboot" with the
> > keyboard.  It's just really annoying.
>
> I'm reopening the bug.  Maybe it's an rhgb interaction problem.  It
> seems to only happen on Thinkpads.
>
> Cheers,
>    Brent
>
>
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