Where is mouse config in FC2?

[lovswr]

In FC 1 it was in the control center. Now I see "mouse" but it's not the one that lets you change it. I just upgraded from FC1 to FC2 & took the default. Generic ps2 mouse. I forgot that my Belkin KVM causes problem with that setting & I have to change it to something else. redhat-config-mouse reports that it can not be found. TIA

[Seehund]

Try "system-config-mouse" (which I can't find in the GNOME menu, BTW).
All "redhat-config-*" utilities have been replaced with "system-config-*" in FC2.

[duncan]

I changed /etc/X11/xorg.conf :

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "PS/2" <---

And restarted X. It fixed the kvm problem, but the wheel doesn't work anymore.

[lovswr]

Thank you both for your prompt replies. Yes, I finally figured out that it was system-config-mouse (& not redhat...jeeze who would've got that ) but the real fix for me was to use USB mouse that I had laying around. The wheel works on that too! (it never did before)

[ghaefb]

@duncan

Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

[gonzalo76]

If you need to change more things, just open a console, log in as root and type:

system-config-users - A graphical interface for administering users and groups.

system-config-network - The GUI of the NEtwork Administration Tool for Red Hat Linux.

system-config-soundcard - A graphical interface for detecting and configuring soundcards.

system-config-display - A graphical interface for configuring the X Windows System display.

system-config-printer-gui - A GUI frontend for printconf

system-config-packages - Graphical package manager

system-config-services - Initscrpt and xinetd configuration utility.

system-config-date - A graphical interface for modifying system date and time.

Good Luck !

[duncan]

ghaefb,
Here is my inputdevice section:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "No"
EndSection

and the wheel doesn't work, does anyone else have this problem?

Thanks,
Duncan

[gonzalo76]

Here's mine, I use Fedora 2 (2.6.5 kernel) with a Microsoft USB Wireless Optical Mouse.

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
EndSection

[kf6kmx]

I'm having the same issues...
In Core1, when changing computers on the KVM the mouse would go wild.. Simply jump to a text-console then back to X and it fixed it (CTRL-ALT-F1, CTRL-ALT-F7, etc)..

Now however, NONE of the machines I've updated to Core2 work anymore with this.. Now if I chnage machines on the KVM, I have to reboot the machine to get the mouse control back (Linux and rebooting....?????

Tried the various fixes, remove the "IMPS" etc, no luck..

Am going to try the cut-paste of the mouse section posted here and see what happens..

I guess I can live without the scroll wheel.. the SGC Octane (running Irix) machines we have at the base that control the flight simulator dont have wheels (although I'm always catching myself trying to scroll with the mouse at work...

[kf6kmx]

Just an update..
Copied in that config, scroll wheel is now working.. but still goes nuts is machine is unselected on KVM..

Is there a nice way to force the X to restart without a system reboot? Maybe that would work.. on the old Redhat 8 (it hink it was) there was an option on the login screen to "Restart X server" and that used to solve the problem when I ran that OS..

[senderap]

if you put psmouse.proto=bare at the end of the kernel line in grub.conf the goofy mouse behavior will stop upon swithing back with the kvm, however you will not have use of the scroll wheel. This is acceptable for me but you'll have to decide if you can live with this.

[C-Bass]

kf6kmx,

If you hit CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE you can restart X in FC1 & 2

[k4dgw]

Crtl Alt Backspace doesn't completely re-read all of the files though, because when this happens, I have used this to restart X and when it opened back up, it had thesame problem. The only way it went away was to reboot. I have not tried the psmouse yet, i will have to give that a try.

Dave

[k4dgw]

Just ran across this link. Some of the material is also documented in these forums, but there is some other good info also.

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/...buglist=123273

Dave

[k4dgw]

Adding the psmouse.proto=bare to my grub.conf fixed the problem. For the less experienced, here is what the grub.conf looks like after being modified.
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,0)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda2
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Fedora Core (2.6.8-1.521)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.8-1.521 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet psmouse.proto=bare
initrd /initrd-2.6.8-1.521.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.5-1.358)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.5-1.358.img