Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 8586
MouseSystems mouse mishaps
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:53 EDT
There are 3 problems with the installer and MouseSystems mouses: -it doesn't detect them, and thus falls back to text mode, what about a nice text screen on mouseprobe failing saying: The installer couldn't probe your mouse, please make sure your mouse is properly connected. If it has a 2-3 or ms-pc switch on the bottom set this switch to ms or 2. After making sure your mouse is properly setup choice "retry". If you choice "continue with textmode install" the install will continue in textmode. -although I put my mouse in 2 button mode to get the graphical installer, I want to use it in 3 button mouse mode in real life, so with the mouse selection I selected MouseSystems as mousetype, after this I didn't need to throw the switch, this could be concidered both a bug and a feature. It is possible to change the X mouse type on the fly (XF86Setup does it) then you have to move the switch and all is dandy, but do we want this? -after the install gpm was installed which MouseSystems as mousetype as I selected during the install, but X still was configured for a Microsoft serial mouse.
The last problem is probably related to the imps2 mouse problems, if you choose an imps2 mouse in the graphical installer, then gpm is configured for this, but X iis still configured for generic PS2. See bug: 8754
The last problem (choose MouseSystems mouse, get Microsoft in XF86Config) was very probably the same problem as the IMPS/2 problem reported in bug 8754. Atleast now that bug 8754 has been fixed, this problem is gone. The second "problem" is fixed too, if I choice a MouseSystems mouse now, I need to throw the switch to MouseSystems in the next screen, so to installer changes it on the fly now. Afaik mousesytems mouse can't be probed, so my current mouse-sytems install looks like: -set mouse in 2 button (M$) mode -start the installer -select MouseSystems -click next -set mouse in 3 button (Mousesystems) mode, since this is wat X is talking now. This works for me, and you have todo the same sorta trickery to get win9x to install. (Actually you have to download seperate drivers to get the 3 button mode to work so thats worse). So all in all I concider this bug fixed in the 4 March snapshot, so I'm closing it.