On Wed 04 Feb 2004 at 12:40:42, Amber Lindsey said:
> with "ls -l /dev/mouse"  output is:
> lrwxrwxrwx     l root     root     5 Jan 30 12:49 /dev/mouse -> psaux

Okay, this looks right.

> "lsmod" output is:
> ide-scsi     12208   0 
> ide-cd     35776   0 
> cdrom     33728   0   [sr_mod  ide-cd] 
> ntfs     59232   1   (autoclean) 
> nls_iso8859-1     3516   3   (autoclean) 
> nls_cp437     5148   2   (autoclean) 
> vfat     13036   2   (autoclean) 
> fat     38872   0   (autoclean)   [vfat] 
> floppy     58012   0   (autoclean) 
> sg     36492   0   (autoclean) 
> sd_mod     13772  0   (autoclean) 
> rtl8150     10744   1  
> usb-storage     76192   0 
> scsi_mod     108168

It looks like you're missing the PS/2 mouse module (you have a PS/2
mouse, right?).  Try typing (as root) "modprobe psmouse" and then see if
"psmouse" shows up in the "lsmod" list.  Fedora may actually build this
into the kernel itself (not as a separate module), so you may get a
"module not found" error.

> "grep Device /etc/X11/XF86Config"  output:
> 
>           InputDevice   "mouse0" "CorePointer" 
>           InputDevice   "Keyboard0"  "CoreKeyboard" 
>           InputDevice   "DevInputMice"  "AlwaysCore" 
> Section "InputDevice" 
> Section "InputDevice" 
>           Option     "Device" "/dev/input/mice" 
> Section "InputDevice" 
>           Option     "Device" "/dev/input/mice" 
> Section "Device" 
>           Device   "videocard0" 

Okay, and here your X configuration is looking in the wrong place for
the mouse device.  You need to change those

     Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"

lines to

     Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"

Unfortunately, I'm not a Fedora user, so I don't know if there's a way
to do this without editing the file by hand (Fedora people, speak up!).
Editing it by hand isn't all that hard if you've got a usable text
editor ("nano" or "pico" are good ones to try, and probably will be
installed).  Do this:

cd /etc/X11
cp XF86Config XF86Config.backup
nano XF86Config

Change those lines, save the new file, and restart the X server by going
back to the graphical login screen and hitting <ctrl>+<alt>+<backspace>.
Try that and let's see where that gets you.

Oh, and just as a special request: many of us use email programs that
don't do HTML messages.  It's a real chore to filter out HTML tags so
that we can read and reply to messages.  Could you set Hotmail to send
only text messages to the list, and not HTML?

-- 
Soren Harward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://theboard.byu.edu/

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