Serial Mouse Problems with Fedora Core 4

Colin Charles lists at bytebot.net
Sat May 28 04:29:51 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 17:48 -0700, Ben Beeson wrote:

> 	I have installed Fedora Core 4 Test 2 on a spare box that I will
> eventually be using for a firewall+router. Right now it is a test box
> for the new FC4 release.  This box has had RH7.2 and RH 9 on it in the
> past and the mouse worked fine with those installs.  I am having trouble
> getting FC4 to recognize and use the mouse, and this is a new problem. 
> I have tried just about every combination available in
> system-config-mouse to no avail.  Many combinations error out with an
> error something like 'inputattach: cannot set line discipline'.  Other
> combos do not error out and mouse services appear to start OK, but the
> cursor on the screen (text screens and X) does not respond to the
> mouse.  The mouse is a two button Logitech First Mouse P/N 811327-00.  I
> have also tried a Logitech MX 310 USB/PS2 mouse and that one doesn't
> work here either although the MX 310 mouse is working quite well on my
> FC2 system that I am writing this note from.  Any ideas would be greatly
> appreciated.

First of all, wrong list - fedora-test-list at redhat.com is the right one

And if this is a problem that persists, please Bugzilla it at
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/. Thanks
-- 
Colin Charles, http://www.bytebot.net/




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