[NTLUG:Discuss] Funky mouse behavior in FC3 solved.

[lonny.dahl@verizon.com]

discuss-bounces at ntlug.org wrote on 06/22/2005 10:29:59 PM:

> Wayne Dahl wrote:
>
> >Thanks for all the input guys.  Nothing suggested actually worked for
> >the problem I was having.  I did some more googling and after many, MANY
> >posts, I found one that suggested changing the Protocol under the mouse
> >section to "Auto".  Since there were two mouse sections in my XF86Config
> >file, I changed both to Auto, rebooted and now the mouse works.  I still
> >have a PS/2 mouse direct connected to the computer so the mouse is not
> >running through the KVM for that computer (I haven't worked up the nerve
> >to try putting it back on the KVM for the mouse) but the keyboard and
> >monitor are connected to the KVM and work just fine.
> >
> >Thanks for the input guys...you gave me some things to try and I
> >appreciate the help.
> >
> >Wayne
> >
> >
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> I has mouse problems with FC3 (yes, it's connected through a KVM).
>  There are several protocol= values you can pass to the kernel.  The one
> that I ofund helped was protocol=bare, other values are exps (supposed
> to be for a specific mouse) and imps (couldn't find any information
> other than the listing).
>

I didn't try exps (hadn't seen that one) but did try protocol=bare and
imps...also found some that suggested adding imps/2 and ps/2 to the grub
config file, still didn't work.  Literally, the only thing to work for me
was to set the Protocol to Auto in the XF86Config file.   I think the
reason adding a kernel parameter didn't work is that it wasn't really a
kernel issue.  It was an X issue.  Correct me if I'm wrong, but the mouse
worked just fine in a console session, but didn't work at all in an X
session.  Sound reasonable?  Anyway, you guys gave me a direction to head
and it helped a lot.  I learned a little more about how things work in
Linux (or, at least, FC3).

Thanks again,

Wayne