From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) Description of problem: New Fedore Core 4 Installed. Serial Mouse not working. PS/2 mouse works fine. In the same machine, with FC3, it works fine. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): FC4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install FC4 with PS/2 Mouse 2. Shudown, replace PS/2 mouse with serial mouse 3. Actual Results: serial mouse does not work. Expected Results: serial mouse should have worked Additional info: When the kernel boots ttyS0 and ttyS1 messages are displayed twice by the serial driver.
Based on a quick examination of kudzu and system-config-mouse, I can't see any changes that would break a serial mouse.
Created attachment 116216 [details] Output of cat /proc/bus/input/devices before modprobe sermouse; inputattach -bare /dev/ttyS0 --daemon
Created attachment 116217 [details] Output of cat /proc/bus/input/devices after modprobe sermouse; inputattach -bare /dev/ttyS0 --daemon
I got my Microsoft Serial Mouse working with gpm and X.org adding the following lines to my rc.local: /sbin/modprobe sermouse /usr/sbin/inputattach -bare /dev/ttyS0 --daemon and modifying the configuration files to use /dev/input/mouse1 (instead of /dev/input/mice). The idea came after examining the output of /proc/bus/input/devices during the many tests I did. I attached the output before and after calling the lines of above. I hope gives someone an idea on were the problem is.
No need to change the rc.local. Changing the DEVICE line alone in /etc/sysconfig/mouse with /dev/ttyS0 worked for me.
That only works AFTER you run gpm. The gpm rc script does basically the same as I did. The computer with the problem doesn't have much ram so I can't have useless daemons wasting memory.
I think FC4 is worst than FC3, I have many issues with this release that I hadn't with FC3 (XP dual boot installation, sound and serial mouse among others).
Serial mice are not supported during install time with anaconda and for FC5 system-config-mouse is going away.