kudzu and gpm

[Michael Schwendt]

On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 09:58:23 +0100, lityi at sas.elte.hu wrote:

> I use rh9 with and Logitech TrackmanVista trackball (well, actually I use it 
> since rh6.2), kudzu recognizes it as 'Generic PS/2' mouse and works fine in 
> Console and in X too.
> I installed FC2 Test and kudzu recognizes my trackball as 'msintellips/2' and 
> 'Generic PS/2 Wheel Mouse'
> 
> Here is the corresponding section of rh9 /etc/sysconfig/hwconf:
> 
> - -
> class: MOUSE
> bus: PSAUX
> detached: 0
> device: psaux
> driver: genericps/2
> desc: "Generic Mouse (PS/2)"
> - -
> 
> 
> and this is FC2 Test1:
> 
> - -
> class: MOUSE
> bus: PSAUX
> detached: 0
> device: psaux
> driver: msintellips/2
> desc: "Generic PS/2 Wheel Mouse"
> - -
> 
> 
> It is this way from installation, if I try graphical install, no mouse 
> (fortunately  keyboard works :-)) ...
> 
> Neither GPM nor X can recognize the trackball, thus X fails to start with 
> 'cannot open psaux' or something

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=115513

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