Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 81657
Running Kickstart freezes mouse
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:49:43 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 Description of problem: Selecting Kickstart from the System Tools menu in KDE freezes Microsoft IntelliMouse Optical USB pointer. Keyboard can still be used. It happens almost always. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Select Kickstart GUI menu from System Tools 2. 3. Actual Results: Mouse freezes.Kickstart sometimes comes up, sometimes doesn't. Expected Results: Mouse doesn't freeze. Additional info: Keyboard can still be used. It happens almost always. No error dialog comes up. There may be a message in a log file, but I don't know how to access it.
Sorry for not responding to this earlier. It was misfiled against 'mkkickstart' instead of 'redhat-config-kickstart'. I am unable to reproduce this behavior. To be honest, I don't see how starting the program could cause the mouse to freeze since redhat-config-kickstart does not try to probe the mouse. Try opening a terminal and running 'redhat-config-kickstart' from the command line. Does the mouse still lock up?
Yes it still occurs, but is not limited to kickstart -- any program that probes the USB.
Well, that's the funny thing...redhat-config-kickstart doesn't probe for the mouse at all.
notting: Have you seen any bugs similar to this regarding mouse probing in RHL 8.0?
No, I don't recall anything like that.
Well, I don't know how else to proceed here other than to resolve as 'worksforme'. I'm fairly certain that the Microsoft IntelliMouse optical cordless works with Red Hat Linux on other machines. I don't know how to explain the behavior you are seeing because there is no mouse probing code in redhat-config-kickstart.