FC2 X issues

[Michael A. Peters]

On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 10:24 -0500, Mark Haney wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 22:08:04 -0800, Tom 'Needs A Hat' Mitchell 
> <mitch48 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 07:58:47PM -0800, Alex wrote:
> >> From: "Alex" <fedora at aleksoft.net>
> >> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> >> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 19:58:47 -0800
> >> Subject: Re: FC2 X issues
> >> Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> >>
> >> I can boot with original kernel and with  compiled from source 2.6.2 
> >> kernel,
> >> but with newer kernels delivered through up2date my system goes crasy. 
> >> It
> >> actually tries to start X session, I can see distorted - out of sync 
> >> blank
> >> desktop with an "X" of mouse pointer in the middle for a second then  No
> >> analog signal message is shown and screen becomes black.
> >> I tried to play with XF86Config, but it does not do any good.
> >> Alex.
> >
> I know it's the wrong list, but I asked the same question and I"ll offer 
> the answer I got on the test list.  You need to change the mouse device in 
> XF86Config from /dev/psaux or /dev/mouse to /dev/input/mice.  It fixed the 
> problem I hAD with X failing on updated kernels.

>From what I gather from discussion at arstechnica - it's only an issue
with Fedora kernel updates - vanilla kernels don't have the issue.