ps/2 mouse trouble

[Jim Cornette]

Ketil Hage wrote:
>>You sure the mouse works? 
>>Batteries dead? 
>>You may need to do install with regular mouse and attach wireless
>>afterwards, I kind of remember doing this myself.
>>
>>I use cordless logitech keyboard and mouse, only caveat is 
>>it doesn't start working till X starts, but I keep a junker keyboard 
>>connected as well.
>>
>>>From my xorg.conf, xorg replaced xfree in FC2.
>>
>>Section "InputDevice"
>>        Identifier  "Mouse0"
>>        Driver      "mouse"
>>        Option      "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
>>        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
>>        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
>>        Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
>>EndSection
>>
>>
>>Ted
>>
> 
> i have the exactly same settings in my xorg.conf.
> 
> and yes, the mouse works, and worked fine in rh8, rh9, fc1 :)
> 
> weird...
> 
> kh
> 
> 


If you have the /dev/input/mice information included in the 
/etc/X11/xorg.conf file, which is needed for ps2 mice using the 2.6 
kernels that are compiled for Fedora, you might have to add this to your 
grub.conf file. I guess it reorders the process orders loaded during the 
kernel initializing. This helps synaptic touchpads, maybe it will help 
w/ your troubles with these ps2 mice.

add psmouse.proto=imps to your grub.conf file. Note the below example. 
I'm running a test installation, so don't copy in whole. This may or may 
not resolve your problem.

Jim

example:
title Fedora Core (2.6.8-1.541)
         root (hd0,1)
         kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.8-1.541 ro root=LABEL=/  psmouse.proto=imps
         initrd /initrd-2.6.8-1.541.img



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