Firstboot loses the mouse pointer?

Brent Fox bfox at redhat.com
Wed Nov 19 15:31:00 UTC 2003


On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 09:55, Charles E Taylor IV wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 08:43:03 +0100
> Peter Boy <pboy at barkhof.uni-bremen.de> wrote:
> 
> [Thinkpad's Trackpoint doesn't work when "firstboot" starts after
> installing Fedora Core 1]
> 
> > Same here with my Thinkpad T40p. No problem with my IBM Intellistation.
> 
> > See:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=100497
>  
> > Red Hat closed the bug because they could not reproduce it.
> > Unfortunately a lot of others can  :-)
> 
> Thinkpad 570E here.  The exact same thing happened - the mouse
> (Trackpoint) doesn't work in "firstboot", but it works everywhere else in
> the installation process and also when the system boots normally.
> 
> It's not a showstopper, because you can navigate "firstboot" with the
> keyboard.  It's just really annoying.

I'm reopening the bug.  Maybe it's an rhgb interaction problem.  It
seems to only happen on Thinkpads.

Cheers,
   Brent





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