Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 13074
QA0327: mouseconfig fails to set 3 button emulation
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:56 EDT
Did an upgrade from 6.2 to beta2 on a dell inspiron 3500 with a 2 button ps2 touch pad. After starting X, there was no way to get a middle click, and emulate three buttons doesnt seem to work. Not sure what it should be adding to the XF86Config, as that man page is incorrect, but thats another bug report.
Please update status with RC1
This is still not working in QA0327: /etc/X11/XF86Config does not get updated, although the file timestamp changes. mouseconfig-4.19-1
It works in 4.20, which has no fixes in that area (it's just compiled with a new kudzu)
part 1: # rpm -q mouseconfig mouseconfig-4.20-1 # tail -1 /etc/sysconfig/mouse XEMU3=no # mouseconfig (box is not checked. check the box and OK to all) # tail -1 /etc/sysconfig/mouse XEMU3=yes # mouseconfig (box is checked. uncheck the box and OK to all) # tail -1 /etc/sysconfig/mouse XEMU3=yes # mouseconfig (the box is checked. seems like uncheck is ignored) Part 2 (about XF86Config) may follow after part 1 is fixed.
QA0401: no changes. look here: edit /etc/sysconfig/mouse, update XEMU3=no start mouseconfig, observe emulate3buttons box is not checked. hit enter two times. open /etc/sysconfig/mouse: XEMU3=yes !!!!!! What is going on???
do you have a 2 button mouse model selected?
yes, PS/2 generic
select one of the "3 button" versions
What are you trying to tell me? That 2 button mouse unconditionally selects 3 button emulation? I _might_ agree with that. But mouseconfig would better tell users about it or let unselect if they _really_ want. Now part two: This is the default Pointer section after mouseconfig selecting emulation to no Section "Pointer" Protocol "PS/2" Device "/dev/mouse" # Emulate3Buttons # Emulate3Timeout 50 EndSection Looks good! Now here is someone's Pointer section, made by hand: Section "Pointer" Protocol "PS/2" Device "/dev/mouse" EndSection This makes mouseconfig very confused and it CAN NOT enable 3 button emulation!!! This is a _real_ bug.
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'.
as longs as some kind of configuration is awailable in text mode....
Yeah. Like I said, the new text mode interface for redhat-config-mouse looks just like mouseconfig. The benefit is that the GUI and TUI share the same backend, so we don't have to maintain two separate tools to do the exact same thing.
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.