I just did a fresh install of RHL 9 gold from CD onto a system with a Matrox G400 During the install, the error message failed on XSetInputFocus() spewed constantly across VC1 The install seemed to work fine otherwise, though
By spewed you mean they come out continuously at a particular rate, or only once during the install?
Continuously... The screen wound up looking like failed on XSetInputFocus()failed on XSetInputFocus()failed on XSetInputFocus()failed on XSetInputFocus()failed on XSetInputFocus()failed on XSetInputFocus()failed on XSetInputFocus()failed on XSetInputFocus()failed on XSetInputFocus()failed on XSetInputFocus()failed on XSetInputFocus()failed on XSetInputFocus()failed on XSetInputFocus()failed on XSetInputFocus()failed on XSetInputFocus()failed on XSetInputFocus()failed on XSetInputFocus()failed on XSetInputFocus()failed on XSetInputFocus()failed on XSetInputFocus()failed on XSetInputFocus()failed on <snip> as they kept appearing....
Hmm, this system has a serial mouse (Kensington Thinking Mouse -- not made any more, but still the best mouse in existance ;-). serial instead of ps/2 is the only unusual hardware feature of the system that I can think of....
Could you switch to VC2 (cntl-alt-f2) and type less /tmp/XF86Config.test and look through it for anything related to Input devices or mice and let me know what its configured to use? You should see something like: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" . . . . EndSection If you could give me the stanza in your file that would help.
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It's Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "Microsoft" Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS0" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes" EndSection Section "InputDevice" # If the normal CorePointer mouse is not a USB mouse then # this input device can be used in AlwaysCore mode to let you # also use USB mice at the same time. Identifier "DevInputMice" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no" EndSection both before and after I configure it to use the Kensington mouse
Mike could you try testing with a serial mouse to see if this problem still occurs?
We're having the same problem here with a twitchy sysadmin who clicks too fast. Basically, the problem has shown up when he clicks in a text field and ends up sliding the mouse out of the text field (which reveals the little "copy" drag icon) and letting go, instead of a clean click in the field. We haven't been able to exactly reproduce the bug (and that's a good thing, since we're trying to get our install working), but maybe this feedback will help.
This shouldn't happen anymore in Fedora test releases.