Bug 77389
| Summary: | mouseconfig doesn't update /etc/X11/XF86Config | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Justin Georgeson <jgeorgeson> |
| Component: | redhat-config-mouse | Assignee: | Brent Fox <bfox> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Ben Levenson <benl> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 8.0 | ||
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| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2003-02-19 16:17:22 UTC | Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Justin Georgeson
2002-11-06 07:46:02 UTC
This bug is 11 days old and is still in the NEW state. Is anyone going to do anything with it? We plan on deprecating mouseconfig in the next release. Can you try redhat-config-mouse-1.0.2-4.noarch.rpm out of Rawhide and see if that fixes the problem? There is now a text interface to redhat-config-mouse. Sorry for the delay in my reponse, my hosting company seems to be holiding me mail for days at a time. Back on topic. The package you suggest does update the /etc/X11/XF86Config file, but not correctly. I selected MS Intellimouse (USB) and the ZAxisMapping was not present, so the scroll wheel was disabled. Further, and perhaps I should have specified, but I need something that works from kudzu. I have a laptop, and don't always boot with the external mouse plugged in. The prior version of redhat-config-mouse in graphical mode configured /etc/X11/XF86Config the same as the new one in text mode (no ZAxisMapping). But it failed to inform me I needed to restart X, and logging out and back in (runlevel 5, so gdm is running) isn't enough. Also, running mouseconfig after having run this new redhat-config-mouse yields an error about being unable to load /etc/sysconfig/mouse. So this new redhat-config-mouse package gets closer than mouseconfig, but doesn't fully configure the mouse. Oh, I see what you're saying. I will work on this today. I have made a change to redhat-config-mouse that will make sure that the ZAxisMapping is written to the XF86Config file, which should fix the problem. The reason that mouseconfig no longer works is because of a change I made to the way redhat-config-mouse writes out /etc/sysconfig/mouse so that PS/2 and USB mice can work at the same time in console mode. This is useful for laptops especially. mouseconfig doesn't know how to handle the "OPTIONS='-t imps2 -m /dev/input/mice -M" line. This is ok since we are removing mouseconfig for the next release. Instead, redhat-config-mouse now can run in text mode. The 'mouseconfig' command will run redhat-config-mouse in text mode in the next release. redhat-config-mouse-1.0.2-8 should fix the problem and should appear in Rawhide in the next day or so. QA, please verify that this has been fixed. I just installed redhat-config-mouse-1.0.2-8 on my laptop. It's looking pretty sharp. This release does correctly detect and configure my USB mouse during boot. There are a few problems though: 1) After detecting and configuring my USB mouse, only the USB mouse works in console mode. The USB mouse is fully configured though (thumb button and wheel both worh)). 2) When booting without the USB mouse connected and the USB mouse was configured at shutdown, the missing USB mouse is removed and a generic 2 button USB mouse is configured. Here's my /etc/sysconfig/mouse after this case FULLNAME="Generic - 2 Button Mouse (USB)" MOUSETYPE="imps2" XEMU3="yes" XMOUSETYPE="genericusb" DEVICE=/dev/input/mice OPTIONS="-t imps2 -m /dev/input/mice -M" My /etc/X11/XF86Config file still has the prior USB config (including ZAxisMapping). I can run redhat-config-mouse to manually specify the PS/2 mouse. Afterwards I do this, both mice work in console mode, and only the PS/2 mouse works in X (which is the expected behavior). I wasn't aware of the support for both devices in console mode, I think that is *really* slick. I just built redhat-config-mouse-1.0.5-1 that should appear in Rawhide tomorrow. I had to remove the "OPTIONS" line from /etc/sysconfig/mouse because it causes gpm to run in repeater mode, which can cause the mouse to go bonkers in X if X and gpm are running at the same time. See bug #76713 for more information. Now, to get both mice to work in XFree86, you need to pick the PS/2 mouse from the list. The USB mouse config is always configured as the secondary mouse in XF86Config, so you need to pick the PS/2 mouse to get both to work. If you pick the USB mouse, then only the USB mouse will work. I could probably improve this behavior a bit, but it's too late for this release. I've recently done a clean install of Phoebe2 (8.0.93) and the redhat-config-mouse in that release has been working quite well for me thus far. For my purposes this bug may be closed/resolved. Thanks. Ok, great. Thanks for all your help on this report. Closing as "rawhide" |