Around the third boot of a fresh FCT3 installation, kudzu "discovered" that I have "added" a PS/2 mouse. I accepted the offer to configure it.
It was detected and working fine since the first install though. It also worked OK after this redetection.
I did not change anything to trigger this. The only thing was playing with th XFree86 driver options ( gfx card options , not the input/mouse options ).
Regards, David
I had a similar experience on my laptop... kudzu detected a "new PS/2 mouse"... I said yes, go ahead.. blah blah ... next thing I know, my USB attached wheel mouse stopped working.... I now have to use the touchpad on the laptop.
Since then I decided to start the whole FCT3 install over again.... clean install from CD1, then applying the updates... now I say "skip" (or whatever) when kudzu keeps saying it detected new PS/2 mouse (which obviously is the touchpad on the laptop.
It's great that it detects that hardware, but what if I want to continue using an external mouse. (The same machine with Windows XP allows both devices to work at the same time.. I can switch between mouse/touchpad without doing anything extra)
Don
-----Original Message----- From: fedora-test-list-admin@redhat.com [mailto:fedora-test-list-admin@redhat.com]On Behalf Of DAVID BALAZIC Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 7:35 AM To: FEDORA-TEST-LIST@redhat.com Subject: Mouse redetected
Around the third boot of a fresh FCT3 installation, kudzu "discovered" that I have "added" a PS/2 mouse. I accepted the offer to configure it.
It was detected and working fine since the first install though. It also worked OK after this redetection.
I did not change anything to trigger this. The only thing was playing with th XFree86 driver options ( gfx card options , not the input/mouse options ).
Regards, David
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On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 12:42, Don wrote:
I had a similar experience on my laptop... kudzu detected a "new PS/2 mouse"... I said yes, go ahead.. blah blah ... next thing I know, my USB attached wheel mouse stopped working.... I now have to use the touchpad on the laptop.
I'm in the same boat as you -- It's rather annoying to have to logout of X and re-run the mouse configuration when ever I dock my machine.
You can use redhat-config-mouse to switch between your USB device (external mouse) and your PS/2 device (built-in touchpad). But I'm *positive* that RH9 allowed me to use both at the same time.
I didn't have any luck finding this in Bugzilla last I looked... nor did I file it (bad Ben, bad, bad!)
you just have to configure X to recognize both devices as valid input. if you RTFM the X documentation (man page for XF86Config would work) you can find info in the pointer section. make sure you have both devices in there and everything should be hunky-dory.
neil
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