When booting a 2.4 kernel after an upgrade to FC2 or FC3-test, the mouse doesn't function, because of the usage of /dev/input/mice for 2.6 kernels instead of /dev/psaux and IMPS/2 instead of the real mouse protocol. X ================================================================= For X this can be fixed by making /dev/input/mice, IMPS/2 the CorePointer, and the original mouse config AlwaysCore The current upgrade-path replaces the CorePointer config by /dev/input/mice, IMPS/2. Resulting in a config with both the COrePointer and the AlwaysCore extra mouse pointing to /dev/input/mice, since /dev/input/mice as AlwaysCore already was present for USB support. If you change the original mouse to AlwaysCore and the AlwaysCore config there for USB to CorePointer, then X works fine under both 2.4 and 2.6. gpm ===================================================================== GPM is rather harder to fix, this because the upgrade changes /etc/sysconfig/mouse. My suggestion don't touch /etc/sysconfig/mouse, this should contain info about the real mouse, not the way the kernel reports it. Next modifiy /etc/rc.d/init.d/gpm to check what kernel is running: -2.4 just use the info in /etc/sysconfig/mouse -2.6 if its a PS/2 mouse use /dev/input/mice, IMPS/2, other wise continue as usual.
I just saw in another bug that 2.4 support is going to be dropped completly from FC3, so I'm closing this.
Created attachment 102118 [details] modfied gpm start script to work with both 2.6 and 2.4 I'm attaching a modified gpm startscript for people still wanting to use 2.4 mixed wirh 2.6, note you should also manually downgrade to the FC2 modutils!
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