no mouse in fedora 2
 

I have just installed Fedora core 2. The problem is that my mouse is not working. It hasn't worked during the installation either. I just thought it would start when I install.

I have tried changing to /dev/psaux, /dev/psmouse, run /dev/mouseconfig, kudzu, /dev/mouse-test and have configured XF86Config.

Any help will be greatly apreciated.

Thanks.

P.S./2: :) The mouse was recognized as 3 button mouse at install. In FC 1 it was recognized as Wheel mouse. However I have tried to solve this by recompiling the kernel but it doesn't help. I have read many posts on google about people complaining of the same problem, but haven't found the right solution yet.

Any help is greatly apreciated. Though I understand FC2 is new and problems are still new to all the gurus. But anyway. Thanks!

same here....

mouse stopped working after the update to FC2. I don't know if picking a different mouse during the X configuration screen would have worked.

I have a microsoft mouse, and have heard of a few people having issues with them.

I, too, am having this problem.

I have tried multiple mouse devs (/dev/mouse, /dev/psaux, /dev/input/mice) in my xorg.conf to no avail.

Here is the section from my xorg.conf:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
EndSection

My mouse is a USB wireless Logitech "Cordless Optical Mouse."

Here's the catch, though: When I boot using the 2.6.5 kernel, it doesn't work. However, when I boot to 2.4.22-2188 (I think that was the last FC1 kernel before FC2 came out), it works fine.

I'm clueless as to what is causing it. Should I just get the 2.6.6 source and attempt my own from the command line? I haven't done it before, but it seems to be my only option other than getting a DVD/CDRW combo and reinstalling FC2 (I got the DVD edition for my laptop but my desktop doesn't have a DVD drive).

Try changing in BIOS the Suppport for USB Legacy to Disabled. It worked for me.

I was able to fix this problem by changing the /dev/mouse link to go to /dev/input/mice instead of /dev/psaux. Then I reran xorg -configure and copied the input pointer spec into the main xorg.conf in /etc/X11/xorg.conf (because on my machine xorg -configure produces invalid values for the monitor specs so I can't just read it back in).

If you do
cat /dev/psaux
and you get "no such input device", then you've probably got the same problem I had. If instead it hangs, and moving the mouse causes your screen to show strange garbage, then you probably have a different problem.

Dan Franklin

All right, newbie question: how/in what do I change the link from /dev/psaux to /dev/input/mice?

edit the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf or /etc/X11/Xf386.config

There is a line for the mouse and change it. After you change it, restart the X server with CTRL+ALT+Backspace

To change the /dev/mouse link from pointing to /dev/psaux to /dev/input/mice, do

cd /dev
rm mouse
ln -s input/mice mouse

You must be root to do this.

Note that you must also edit your configuration file /etc/X11/xorg.conf; search for /dev/psaux and replace it with /dev/mouse.

(Or you could skip changing the /dev/mouse link, and just edit xorg.conf to replace /dev/psaux with /dev/input/mice. I didn't suggest that because I think it's better to have /dev/mouse point to a working mouse device.)

Dan Franklin