Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 89061
replacing usb mouse with ps/2 mouse fails
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:53:07 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401 Description of problem: I was using a genius usb mouse (Webscroll + I think), but redhat has problems detecting it (10% of the times I start the computer, redhat doesn't detect the mouse, this should be in a separate bug) To solve this, I used the included usb to ps/2 adapter to connect the same mouse to the ps/2 port, and rebooted. Kudzu detects the mouse, (I selected generic ps/2 wheel mouse), and it works ok in console mode. But when X starts, it hangs for about 15 seconds, and then the login screen appears and i can't move the mouse. If I get back to console (ctrl alt f1), it works again. Switching back to X, I have to wait again, and it doesn't work. Very weird thing is that if I login to X, and using the keyboard I open redhat-config-mouse, and select generic ps/2 wheel mouse, it suddenly works!! But if I close the session, or go to console mode and back to X, it stops working. Note that the mouse and the ps/2 adapter seem to be ok, because I can use the mouse on both ports on windows and mandrake. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: as detaliled above Additional info:
Update: the problem is fixed by removig the following line from XF86Config InputDevice "Mouse0" "SendCoreEvents" The bug still applies, because, if this is the right way to fix this, it should be done automatically
This sounds like a bug in the way X is talking to the mouse. We want to leave the "SendCoreEvents" option in the file because that allows more than one input device to move the cursor (like a laptop with a touchpad and an external mouse). Mike, I'm assigning this to XFree86 since it sounds like an X mouse driver bug. Let me know if I'm on crack here.
Sounds to me like your XFree86 is configured for the USB mouse, you changed to PS/2 adaptor and did not reconfigure XFree86 to use it as a PS/2 mouse. Rename your X config file, then run redhat-config-xfree86 and generate a brand new X config. I seriously doubt this is an XFree86 mouse driver bug. It is most likely just a configuration problem.
This appears to be configuration issue, so closing as "NOTABUG". If a freshly generated config file still produces this problem, please upgrade to Fedora Core 2 and try to reproduce. If it still occurs, please file a new bug report. Thanks.
This bug was last marked NOTABUG, but somehow the bug status did not get updated. Here's an updated suggestion: Since this bugzilla report was filed, there have been several major updates to the X Window System, which may resolve this issue. We encourage you to upgrade to the latest version of Fedora Core (http://fedora.redhat.com). If this issue turns out to still be reproduceable in the latest version of Fedora Core, please file a bug report in the X.Org bugzilla located at http://bugs.freedesktop.org in the "xorg" component. Once you've filed your bug report to X.Org, if you paste the new bug URL here, Red Hat will continue to track the issue in the centralized X.Org bug tracker, and will review any bug fixes that become available for consideration in future updates.