mouse not working in fc5
 

hi friends

i hv installed fc5 from the dvd. but it has not detected my mouse so am not able to use the mouse. pls tell me how i can get the mouse to work. i have a seriall mouse. i tried to add ttys0 to etc/X11/xorg.conf file but it gives an error on booting that unknwon protocal. please tell me how can i get the mouse to work.

thanks

where u get this idea ermm btw can u paste here

Section "InputDevice"

this is mine :

my etc/X11/xorg.conf is exactly the same as u have mentioned, but my mouse is not ps2. i have a serial mouse, now tell me what should i add for serial mouse in the mouse section.

thanks

make sure you use ttyS0, ie, capital 'S'
can you post your mouse section and the exact error?

well i did add ttyS0, in the protocol section and then rebooted the system but then system gives a error that ttyS0 is unknown protocol and x server could not be started. it starts after a lot of time and then wheni check the conf file it is restored to the original format. when i add ttyS0 do i have to add IMPS/2 .

you use that as the device not the protocol. protocol should be IMPS/2, device should be /dev/ttyS0

serial mouse not working in fc5
 

hi
my serial mouse is not working in FC5.
in the xorg.conf mouse section line
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice", i have added Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS0".

but still my mouse is not working.

pls help me out.

did you add that line or replace it? can you copy and paste the full section for your mouse?

This is my mouse section in xorg.conf file
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS0"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection

i hv replaced the line

try put ttyS1 instead of ttyS0, or maybe even 2 instead of 1.. save the file, and restart X (you dont have to do a full reboot)

if not ttyS work, try /dev/mouse

Just to interject here... I recently did a fresh install of FC5 and I too thought I had no mouse once the desktop loaded. However, the mouse was working. It was just invisible. Please make sure you that you really don't have any mouse activity. You can do this by moving your mouse around the screen. If you go over one of the menus, the tooltip will pop up. If that happens then the mouse is there. You just can't see it.

The remedy for me was to edit xorg.conf and add this line to the video card section:

Evidently, there's some problem with FC5 auto-detecting certain mice in conjuction with newer Nvidia video hardware.

Hope this was helpful to you.

Regards,

~Eric

On Fedora 6 this worked
 

This is how I did it on Fedora 6:

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
Add > InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Add > Section "InputDevice"
Add > Identifier "Mouse0"
Add > Driver "mouse"
Add > Option "Protocol" "Microsoft"
Add > Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS0"
Add > EndSection

You probably may have to alter the "/dev/ttyS0" to "/dev/ttyS1" or "/dev/ttyS2"

Hope it helps!


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