Description of problem: No PS/2 mouse configures correctly causing X to fail. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): As packaged with FC2 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. run redhat-system-mouse or mouseconfig 2. (optional) cd /dev; ln -s /dev/input/mice mouse 3. Xorg Actual results: Without step 2 above Xorg aborts as the xorg.conf file expects the mouse device at /dev/mouse. WIth stem 2 X hangs (mouse not functioning) Expected results: X working Additional info: /etc/sysconfig/mouse: FILENAME "GENERIC 3 BUTTON MOUSE PS/2" MOUSETYPE "imps2" XEMU3 "no" XMOUSETYPE "IMPS/2" DEVICE /dev/input/mice SYSTEM: motherboard: Soyo P$X400 Dragen Ultra graphics card: ATI Mach64 3D RAGE II moniter Nokia 445pro memory 256M DDR400 mice from Microsoft, HP and Logitek (same results) Removing the hard drive and putting it on an older system enabled it to configure correctly The original FC2 installation also failed on the above system and needed to be completed on the older system/motherboard (anaconda bug # 37400) The configuration also failed to probe the on-board sound on the P4X400 Dragen Ultra motherboard which which the configuration utilities seem to have trouble communicating.
Please attach individually and uncompressed xorg.conf, cat /proc/bus/input/devices, as root running /usr/sbin/kudzu -p -b psaux Also please run sytem-config-display --reconfig and attach the new xorg.conf and test with that. We should not be using /dev/mouse in recent generated xorg.conf, also was this an upgrade from FC1 or earlier?
Created attachment 106113 [details] from 'Xorg -configure'
Created attachment 106114 [details] left over from auto configuration
The installation was new, not from FC1 The command 'system-config-display --reconfig' gave: File /usr/share/system-config-display/xconf.py, line 412 in ? hardwere_state.merge_into(xconfig) Name error name 'hardware_state' is not defined
Please update to the latest s-c-display errata that fixed the error in comment #4 and retry the reconfig command: system-config-display-1.0.17-2 eg: yum update system-config-display
Created attachment 106147 [details] Per Comment # 5
Can you confirm the mouse working in that config - it is using /dev/input/mice which is correct. One option if you want to specifiy /dev/mouse instead is to setup a udev rule for the symlink but /dev/mouse is deprecated with 2.6 and I'm suprised your xorg.conf had it in.
Created attachment 106218 [details] For Add. comment #8 Xorg with the current configuration xorg.conf hangs before the mouse becomes functional; or before the background loads. Resulting /var/log/xorg.0.log attached
Can you boot into runlevel 3 and start X with the configuration in comment #6. Are there any additional error messages on the console after X hangs.
When I do so X, the start screen and Gnome come up. Login is possible and Gnome starts. But the mouse cursor remains frozen. No error messages are visible.
Hmm, can you open up a terminal using the run Alt-F2 gnome-terminal should work with no mouse. Run: hexdump -C < /dev/input/mice and move the mouse, then Ctrl-C. Also please paste in the output of cat/proc/bus/input/devices
Created attachment 106637 [details] /proc/bus/input/devices
"hexdump -C < /dev/input/mice" with mouse movement generated no output.
Looks like a kernel issue with the input layer.
Should I report this as a kernel bug?
A USB mouse works!
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