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hello! ps/2 mouse isn't working. funny?
i have installed fedora distro, while i was intsalling it my mouse worked well, BUT after installation it stopped. i recconnected it many times, nothing, rebooted pc, nothing, booted windows XP (!!!) NOTHING lol. it worked in slack, win xp, and even while i was installing fedora.
then, i formatted my /dev/hda7 where linux is, it worked in win xp again. lol than i reinstalled fedora, it stopped =]
would like to use fedora - it is much easier than others, but mouse... any ideas?
You open a terminal while in the GUI to get to console and load it from there. You have to use sudo commands or type su and the root password if you know it.
what sudo commands? one programmer told me to configurate xorg.conf
driver 'mouse'
option 'protocol' 'ps/2'
option 'device' 'dev/mouse'
that didn't work
and i had problems in getting to /etc/X11/xorg.conf it said 'permition denied' but i was logged as root. got to the file in file manager.
Originally posted by Rast oh cool thx. but how can i log on in console in fedora? can u give me the right config for xorg.conf for ps/2 wheel mouse plz?
To log on in console, all distro probably the same...
The file `/etc/inittab' ,read the following line.
Code:
# 0 = halt
# 1 = single user mode
# 2 = unused (but configured the same as runlevel 3)
# 3 = multiuser mode (default Slackware runlevel)
# 4 = X11 with KDM/GDM/XDM (session managers)
# 5 = unused (but configured the same as runlevel 3)
# 6 = reboot
# Default runlevel. (Do not set to 0 or 6)
id:4:initdefault:
Originally posted by Rast no, only not fedora, graphical mode startx first, not console, how d i log on into console??
It should work...
I'm running KDM, so I use runlevel 4 and if you want console login, use runlevel 3.
Code:
#
# inittab This file describes how the INIT process should set up
# the system in a certain run-level.
#
# Author: Miquel van Smoorenburg, <miquels@drinkel.nl.mugnet.org>
# Modified for RHS Linux by Marc Ewing and Donnie Barnes
#
# Default runlevel. The runlevels used by RHS are:
# 0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
# 1 - Single user mode
# 2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have networking)
# 3 - Full multiuser mode
# 4 - unused
# 5 - X11
# 6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
#
id:3:initdefault:
# System initialization.
si::sysinit:/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit
l0:0:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 0
l1:1:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 1
l2:2:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 2
l3:3:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 3
l4:4:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 4
l5:5:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 5
l6:6:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 6
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