Bug 23499
Summary: | [PATCH] RFE: kill /dev/mouse (making devfs support easier) | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Raw Hide | Reporter: | Andrew Bartlett <abartlet> |
Component: | mouseconfig | Assignee: | Brent Fox <bfox> |
Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 1.0 | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | i386 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
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Last Closed: | 2006-02-21 18:47:52 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Bug Depends On: | 23500 | ||
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Description
Andrew Bartlett
2001-01-07 03:16:00 UTC
Created attachment 7164 [details]
patch for init.d/gpm to use a DEVICE variable and make it usable on devfs
Created attachment 7166 [details]
Better version of the init.d/gpm patch
Created attachment 7167 [details]
A patch to mouseconfig.c to make it read and record the device it uses, instead of using the /dev/mouse symlink
This patch implements (along with the patch to gpm's init.d entry, mirrored in bug 23500) the storage of the mouse device in /etc/sysconfig/mouse, rather than in the /dev/mouse symbolic link. This allows for the use of gpm (and presumably X) on systems with devfs. It should have no detremental effect on non-devfs users, and uses the old standard names. (devfsd provides these as a compatibility measure, and RedHat ships with devfsd - presumably for user's own sanity). My muck-about machine, on which this was developed however does not have X installed, but the changes to its configuration file seem correct. Also note that I am not yet particularly competent in C, but this patch appears to work and should at least be a good start on implmenting this feature. The use of this patch should allow RedHat machines to boot correctly into gpm-enabled console and X without issues, even if they want to try devfs. I will have a look at this over the next few days, thanks for the patches. Is this still being looked at? I have just completed a text mode interface for redhat-config-mouse, which means that mouseconfig will be deprecated in the next release of Red Hat Linux. Therefore, I will not be putting any development time towards fixing mouseconfig bugs, so I'm closing this as 'wontfix'. That's fine, but does the new redhat-config-mouse still rely on /dev/mouse? If so, can this bug be re-assigned to the new program? If not, then thankyou! Andrew Bartlett Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated. |