From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040115 Description of problem: During the install of Fedora Core 2 Test 1, my two button serial mouse did not work. It is working fine now that FC2 is installed. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot of FC2 Test 1 CD. 2. After GUI starts up, mouse does not work. 3. Additional info:
The mouse is attached to ttyS1.
My 3-button serial mouse was detected wrongly as "Generic - Wheel mouse (PS/2)" which didn't work. I installed using keyboard only, selected the correct mouse during installation, just to find that "firstboot" doesn't accept any keyboard input and I need to work around that, too.
FC2 Test1 will generally report that a PS/2 wheel mouse is there every time. This is fixed in current trees.
As Bill said, the development tree should have this fixed
Rather than reporting a PS/2 wheel mouse, FC2 final detects my mouse as a generic 2 button serial mouse, and doesn't work during the install (although it's fine once the install is complete). My mouse is actually a *3* button serial mouse, too, which meant that I had to manually run mouseconfig after installing to get the middle button working under X.
*** Bug 119474 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Maybe the wheel issue is solved (is it?), but serial mice are still *not* detected during installation (FC3t1). Reassigning.
Serial mice aren't going to be supported during installation (unless someone provides a patch). They're just not common enough at this point and fall into the same category as ISA network cards as far as support is concerned.
I dont know about other parts of the world but here in India serial mouse are much more common that ISA cards. In my office almost every system has a serial mouse but no ISA cards. Please reconsider this