FC1->FC3: USB mouse + mousewheel no longer working
James Wilkinson
james at westexe.demon.co.uk
Fri Dec 3 22:53:41 UTC 2004
Gerrit wrote:
> this morning, I upgraded from Fedora Core 1 to Fedora Core 3.
> My mouse is no longer working.
> I have a Microsoft 2-button USB Wheel mouse.
So do I (mine's optical), and it's working fine.
> With 'system-config-mouse',
> I selected "Generic - Wheel Mouse (USB)". /etc/sysconfig/mouse reads:
>
> FULLNAME="Generic - Wheel Mouse (USB)"
> MOUSETYPE="imps2"
> XEMU3="no"
> XMOUSETYPE="IMPS/2"
> DEVICE=/dev/input/mice
Mine is identical.
> The relevant part of /etc/X11/xorg.conf reads:
>
> Section "ServerLayout"
> Identifier "Default Layout"
> Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
> InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
> InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> InputDevice "DevInputMice" "AlwaysCore"
I don't have this line...
> EndSection
>
> Section "Files"
>
> (...)
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Mouse0"
> Driver "mouse"
> Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
> Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>
> # If the normal CorePointer mouse is not a USB mouse then
> # this input device can be used in AlwaysCore mode to let you
> # also use USB mice at the same time.
> Identifier "DevInputMice"
> Driver "mouse"
> Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
> Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
> EndSection
I don't have this section.
Try system-config-display --reconfig. It might help to boot into
runlevel 3 to do this (append 3 to the kernel... line in grub).
Hope this helps,
James.
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