On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Sarfaraz Kazi <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/3/11 Rajeev R. K. <[email protected]>: >> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Sarfaraz Kazi <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hi! >>> >>> I recently installed FC10 on my desktop PC. Everything's running fine >>> expect for my logitech 3-button serial mouse which is not getting >>> recognised under FC10. >> >> Dear Sarfaraz, >> >> The Default in fedora 10 is to use a completely autodetected mechanism >> of handling hardware. This works for most hardware because they are >> designed to be probed and identify themselves correctly. Sadly, serial >> mice are not among these devices, and linux isnt the only os to have >> issues with detection of serial mice and other serial >> devices(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/283063). >> >> That being said, there is a workaround to specify to the Kernel Input >> Subsystem(that is autoprobed) that there is a mouse available. The >> command used for it is '/usr/sbin/inputattach' , which is part of the >> 'gpm' package, installed by default. Note that this command has to be >> run before X starts up and does it's autoprobing, therefore it should >> be included as part of the system startup( The ideal/recommended >> location for this is in /etc/rc.d/rc.local ). >> >> For example, if you have a 3 button Logitech serial mouse with a >> scroll wheel connected on COM1, this is the line i would add in >> rc.local >> "/usr/sbin/inputattach --mmwheel /dev/ttyS0" > > Dear Rajeev, > > As per your instructions, I appended the following line to /etc/rc.d/rc.local > - >
Try making it "/usr/sbin/inputattach --microsoft /dev/ttyS0 &" Regards R. K. Rajeev > /usr/sbin/inputattach --microsoft /dev/ttyS0 > > However, after rebooting, the system halted at the boot screen itself > just after the progress fills up completely. On pressing F1, the last > message I can see is "Starting anacron [OK]". I can move the mouse > cursor (white rectangle) at this point, but the system won't boot into > X. > > I had to comment out the aforementioned line from rc.local by booting > into rescue mode off my fc10 dvd. > > I tried giving the same command as root from X terminal and the mouse > works perfectly. Am I doing something wrong here? > > Regards, > Sarfaraz > -- > http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers > -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
