| Summary: | X -configure picks wrong mouse device trashes console display and keyboard input | ||
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| Product: | xorg | Reporter: | Trent Jarvi <taj> |
| Component: | Input/Mouse | Assignee: | Xorg Project Team <xorg-team> |
| Status: | RESOLVED INVALID | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | critical | ||
| Priority: | high | CC: | esigra, olav, taj |
| Version: | 6.8.1 | ||
| Hardware: | x86 (IA32) | ||
| OS: | Linux (All) | ||
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| i915 platform: | i915 features: | ||
Start of this trail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=140697 Log and typescript with X11 leaving console unusable available at: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=140722 I had this problem too, wit Gentoo and xorg-x11-6.8.2-r1. I was experimenting with different mouse settings, and sometimes when something did not work, X locked the console, so I had to restart the computer (since I do not have another computer to log in from over ssh). Any improvements using a more current version of xorg? Ping! Bugzilla Upgrade Mass Bug Change
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I offer you this fine speciman of a bug. Some of the comments are fedora related (I was recommended to this bug forum) but the fact remains that X -configure fails to properly configure the mouse and running X after that trashes the console and keyboard while the machine still accepts ssh connections. Looks like the rodent moved but xorg didnt. yum update fc-devel xorg-x11-6.8.1-12.FC3.1 fairly complete update save Xchat, ooffice.org and their missing deps. running fc-devel kernel-2.6.9-1.650_devel. Thinkpad 600x neomagic, ps/2 pointer. X -configure failes to detect mouse. resulting in: (**) Mouse0: Core Pointer (**) Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/mouse No such file or directory. (EE) Mouse0: cannot open input device ... (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Keyboard0" (type: KEYBOARD) No core pointer Fatal server error: failed to initialize core devices ... FatalError re-entered, aborting Caught signal 11. Server aborting xorg.conf from X -configure Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "auto" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" EndSection This should be Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "auto" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" EndSection running mouseconfig makes no changes (even if the file is corrected). The incorrect config results in X trashing the display and keyboard input which I see was reported upstream as instructed. The machine will appear dead to new users on run level 5. /etc/sysconfig/mouse FULLNAME="Generic - 3 Button Mouse (PS/2)" MOUSETYPE="imps2" XEMU3="no" XMOUSETYPE="IMPS/2" DEVICE=/dev/input/mice Expected results are working X11.