USB mouse on Fedora Core 1

[FrankBlourtango]

I had FC1 working just fine. USB mouse and everything. Then I did a reinstall to get my drives partitioned better and see if I could get the server apps to come up correctly.

Now the mouse, which worked before, doesn't work. I'm a newbie and I don't know how to troubleshoot this. I did a reboot and swapped with a known good mouse.


I'll probably put Core 2 on today but I was wondering how you would work on this in linux? In windows I could do it in my sleep but in linux I'm about clueless...
:confused:

[FrankBlourtango]

Guess I should search first. I know, I suck.

I'll try

redhat-config-mouse

mouseconfig

when I get home.

[BrokenUSMC2003]

You also may want to check your /etc/X11/XF86Config file for things that are out of place. Fedora Core 2 was better mouse things anyway in my brief experience with it. When in doubt... upgrade.

[FrankBlourtango]

Thanks Gunny!

I used to work for the DOD myself. A squid.

[BrokenUSMC2003]

Gunny? Although that has a great ring to it, I was just a 18 year old recruit who got injured on the Island (hence the "broken" part :-D ). Now that I can walk again I'm trying to get back into my beloved Corps. We'll see how that goes. If you ever want to swap stories, shoot me an e-mail and we can go from there. OOH-RAH!

[FrankBlourtango]

Well I upgraded to Redhat Core 2. The mouse still doesn't work and now the ethernet adapter isn't seen.

redhat-config-mouse gives: command not found

mouse config brings up a tool where I set the correct mouse. Reboot. Still no mouse.

I used the GUI graphic install and the mouse worked all through that. WTF

[mdwatts]

Originally posted by FrankBlourtango
The mouse still doesn't work and now the ethernet adapter isn't seen.

redhat-config-mouse gives: command not found


Could you then please post the InputDevice section from /etc/X11/XF86Config or XF86Config-4 for your mouse? We do have lots of previous threads here in the Hardware forum and in Networking on ethernet card troubleshooting. See if the module is loaded with

/sbin/lsmod

Are you running 'redhat-config-mouse' as root? It might only be in root's PATH (echo $PATH).

[FrankBlourtango]

Well I got both the mouse and eth0 working, at least marginally.

With the mouse I switched from a USB mouse to the old PS2 type and plugged it in next to the keyboard just like in the good ol days. A reboot and that was up.

Then I geeked on google while I was at work today and gleaned that kudzu can cause problems with both mice and ethernet cards.

I went to system settings - server settings - services and unchecked kudzu, rebooted with no luck.

So I opened a terminal in Gnome and did this:

chkconfig --kudzu off

Didn't seem to work but I fiddled around in the network app in system settings and managed to get the eth0 online. I watched the screen during the reboot and got no errors.

Then I figured out that it wasn't picking up the DNS name server IP's form my router. Normally it's DHCP provides these. I could ping my windows boxes and the router but not www.yahoo.com or anything else by URL. So I manually added them and now Mozilla works and everything seems ok.

Since the USB mouse worked fine during the GUI install I'm thinking my USB is misconfigured. So that will be my next little project.

BTW. How can I set this so that it boots to just the command prompt and not all the way into Gnome? I want to learn the real linux command stuff.

Thanks for your help guys.

[mdwatts]

Originally posted by FrankBlourtango

BTW. How can I set this so that it boots to just the command prompt and not all the way into Gnome? I want to learn the real linux command stuff.


You can still use most commands while in Gnome by using a xterminal, Gnome terminal etc.

http://justlinux.com/nhf/X_Window/Booting_Into_GUI.html

Our JL Help File explains the runlevels. You would want '3'.