Bug 83723
| Summary: | Generic PS/2 mouse setting forgotten when out of X system | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Public Beta | Reporter: | Jani Alinikula <jani.alinikula> |
| Component: | redhat-config-mouse | Assignee: | Brent Fox <bfox> |
| Status: | CLOSED WORKSFORME | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | phoebe | CC: | wtogami |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | athlon | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2003-02-10 19:57:11 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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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'. |
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: