"Mike A. Harris" <mharris@xxxxxxxxxx>
>On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, DAVID BALAZIC wrote:
>
>>I just booted Shrike and my USB mouse does not work.
>>(not on console, not in X11)
>>The mouse works if I kill gpm and run it like :
>>gpm -t imps2 -m /dev/input/mice
>>
>>It seems kudzu is not detecting it correctly ( I had
>>some serial and PS/2 mice configured on the previous boot )
>>
>>Here is some data:
>>
>>Mouse : HP ( Logitech really ) 3 button USB mouse,
>> model : M-UD43
>
>Some datapoints:
>
>- Serial mice aren't/can't be detected well.
>- Serial mice are getting rather ancient and becoming borderline
> unsupported, or rather "works as is" so to speak
>- USB mice are becoming the norm
>- XFree86 is not hotplug aware and does not autodetect or
> autoconfigure mice, thus requiring an external tool to ensure
> the config file is set correctly.
>
>Many laptop users have one or more pointing devices built in, as
>well as the option to use an external pointing device, either
>serial, PS/2, or USB (or other). Since there was a growing
>desire to have USB pointing devices "just work" better than the
>status quo, our config tools now always configure a USB mouse as
>the secondary pointing device even if you don't have one. This
>is harmless under normal circumstances.
>
>If you install the OS, with a PS/2 device plugged in, you will
>get a PS/2 mouse as your primary "core pointer" in XFree86. You
>will also get a USB mouse configured secondary with
>"SendCoreEvents". This device need not be plugged in or even
>exist, however if one is plugged in prior to X starting, it will
>work. If plugged in after X has started, it will not work as
>XFree86 does not support hotplug pointing devices yet.
>
>You removed serial and/or USB pointing devices, leaving your
>configuration with an odd state. While I agree that the optimal
>situation in all cases with computers is for the operating system
>software to just plain autodetect everything in all cases under
>all circumstances, and "just work", the underlying problem at
>hand here is that XFree86 simply does not have the functionality
>that is required to "just do that" without any user intervention
>at all. XFree86 4.4.0 has some enhancements which might help
>here, but that is a way off yet.
>
>So...
>
>When you change your mouse from what was plugged in during
>installation, or change the connection type (serial, PS/2, USB),
>you very much do need to reconfigure your pointing devices by
>running redhat-config-mouse, or by editing the configuration
>file.
>
>While this may be an inconvenience to some users, this is the
>bottom of the line state of mouse support in Linux operating
>systems currently, and in XFree86.
>
>The downside of this, is that Windows users requiring
>autoconfiguration and autodetection of all hardware 100% of the
>time with zero intervention, should probably stick using Windows
>for another year or two or three... or perhaps 6 months if we're
>lucky. 2.6.0 + 4.4.0 might give us what we need.
>
>Hope this helps.
A bit, but it does not explain why kudzu does not detect
the presence of the USB mouse and configure at least gpm
to use it.
I fixed XFree86 by adding a line into /etc/X11/XF86Config :
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "DevInputMice" "AlwaysCore" # I added this
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Then I killed X by ctrl-alt-BS and when it restarted ( runlevel is 5 )
the mouse worked.
I'll think about this and then maybe report a bug against kudzu.
Regards,
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David Balazic
E-mail : david.balazic@xxxxxxxxx | living in sLOVEnija
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