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

[Leroy Tennison]

lonny.dahl at verizon.com wrote:

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>discuss-bounces at ntlug.org wrote on 06/22/2005 10:29:59 PM:
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>>Wayne Dahl wrote:
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>>>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.
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>>>Thanks for the input guys...you gave me some things to try and I
>>>appreciate the help.
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>>>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).
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>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).
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>Thanks again,
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>Wayne
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Oh, it worked in the console session, my mouse didn't work anywhere and 
spewed messages about dropping bytes, etc. at the console.  Definitely a 
different problem.