Bug 53031 - X(installer) fails when mouse was not autodected
Summary: X(installer) fails when mouse was not autodected
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Public Beta
Classification: Retired
Component: anaconda
Version: roswell
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Brent Fox
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-09-02 10:03 UTC by Heinz Deinhart
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:36 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-09-04 15:26:27 UTC
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Description Heinz Deinhart 2001-09-02 10:03:24 UTC 
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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3-12 i686)

Description of problem:
installer falls back to textmode when connecting a USB mouse while
mouse-selection textbox is displayed
works fine when mouse is connected during boot

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. boot roswell iso without mouse connected to PC
2. proceed until it says: no mouse found, select one
3. connect a USB mouse to PC
4. select USB mouse (3 button, no emu)
5. see X failing to start (multiple times) and finally find yourself in
texmode install

Additional info:
Comment 1 Matt Wilson 2001-09-04 14:16:26 UTC 
if you have the mouse attached during bootup, does this work?
Comment 2 Heinz Deinhart 2001-09-04 15:26:22 UTC 
yes it does (as i wrote above)
so its no showstopper
Comment 3 Jeremy Katz 2001-09-05 23:56:55 UTC 
Not something that can be handled without hotplug support in anaconda
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