Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 83723
Generic PS/2 mouse setting forgotten when out of X system
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:38:05 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030120 Description of problem: I have to re-select mouse type from redhat-config-mouse every time I login, otherwise my mouse moves slowly with no acceleration. Otherwise it works OK. In this state, changing mouse acceleration parameters from the prefences menu (gnome-mouse-properties) doesn't seem to produce as good feel to the mouse as re-selecting mouse type from redhat-config-mouse. This forgetting happens also when I go to the text terminal and back to X. I have a Logitech optical Wheel mouse. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.(mouse ok) 2.Ctrl-Alt-F1 3.Ctrl-Alt-F1 4.(mouse bad) Additional info:
Sorry, there was a bug in the last report... Steps to Reproduce should of course have been: 1.(mouse ok) 2.Ctrl-Alt-F1 3.Ctrl-Alt-F7 4.(mouse bad)
When configuring the mouse, redhat-config-mouse restarts gpm. gpm seems to change mouse resolution setting to make the mouse move faster. When returning to X from text terminal, the resolution setting is forgotten. Adding: 'Option "Resolution" "200"' to /etc/X11/XF68Config-4 helps and the movement stays ok. So the bug isn't acually in redhat-config-mouse, but maybe it should add such a line by default, because the default setting (at least for my mouse) really isn't useful at all.
Strange. I have a Logitech Optical Wheel mouse and I don't see this behavior at all. I usually have the acceleration and sensitivity set pretty high on my mouse. When I press Alt-F1, it takes me to console mode. gpm is running and the mouse works in console mode. Pressing Alt-F7 takes me back to X and the acceleration and sensitivity settings are still in effect. Also, I think that switching between console mode and X is relatively uncommon so I don't think that this is a major problem. At any rate, it is not a problem with redhat-config-mouse. I can't say whether the actual problem is with gpm, XFree86, Gnome or KDE. I think that adding the "Resolution" "200" to the XF86Config file is the wrong approach since that setting may not be correct for everyone. Closing as 'worksforme'.