On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 17:07 -0500, Styma, Robert E (Robert) wrote: > > > The nice thing about the old system-config-mouse was that it gave > > > you a list of mice from which you could pick a best match. I have > > > not stumbled across this list elsewhere. I am currently > > loading FC4 on > > > a > > > test machine and will see what kind of mouse configuration it > > > comes up with for the new mouse. I will then try copying that > > > to my FC6 machine and see what happens. > > > > > > Bob S > > Well I confused the issue by posting the FC4 xorg.conf in answer to a > > previous question like this. But two further comments are interesting: > > > > I have used a PS/2 mouse on a system with 7 computers and one mouse > > through a KVM and it worked well. > > > > Second, FC6 has a different attitude towards mice. There is no mouse > > configuration clause in my xorg.conf on my FC6 machine with a > > PS/2 mouse > > so I don't know whether FC4 information will be useful on FC6. > > > > Although , our colleague Tim says this problem is rampant I have never > > experienced or heard of it before. But is it exists I am sure it is a > > hardware problem. > > The new optical wheel mouse works fine if I plug it directly into the > machine. It is only through the KVM that things get messed up. The > old mouse works fine through the KVM. The /etc/X11/xorg.conf file does > have an input selection with a protocol for the mouse. If you run > Xorg -configure > from run level 3, it puts a protocol of "auto" in there on an FC6 > system. > The Xorg doc says that the mouse is probed on the fly. It appears all > the information needed is not getting through the KVM for "auto" to work > correctly. I am hoping that by using an older Fedora which still used > X.org, I can determine what the protocol is that would be detected if > everything worked. I would then code that in the appropriate place in > the xorg.conf file. This of course may not work, but it is the best > idea I have at the moment. Uh, is this a Belkin KVM by any chance? They're rather notorious for hosing mice connections. I use Linksys and Rose KVMs and have had few issues. I've heard many a horror story about Belkins, however. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Principal Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxx - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - "The bogosity meter just pegged." - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
