Bug 524780

Summary: Graphical YaST -> Mouse Model should set MOUSEDEVICE in /etc/sysconfig/mouse
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.1 Reporter: Forgotten User EGKOvZW2-J <forgotten_EGKOvZW2-J>
Component: YaST2Assignee: J. Daniel Schmidt <jdsn>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None    
Version: Final   
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Hardware: PC   
OS: openSUSE 11.1   
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Description Forgotten User EGKOvZW2-J 2009-07-23 20:47:48 UTC 
User-Agent:       Opera/9.64 (X11; Linux x86_64; U; en) Presto/2.1.1

The problem is that graphical and text-mode YaSTs behave differently in regards of mouse setup.

When setting mouse model from graphical YaST, it doesn't set MOUSEDEVICE in /etc/sysconfig/mouse, forcing users to use the text mode version of YaST to have gpm (which won't work if MOUSEDEVICE is not set). This is not intuitive (I discovered it only by accident) and users should not have to run two versions of the same tool, which in most cases provide the same functionality.

Also, the mouse models in text-mode version are completely different, which adds to the confusion. For example, the only ps/2 mouse in text mode is "IntelliMouse Explorer".

I understand that one is a X mouse driver list and another is probably a "gpm" list, but I don't see a problem in unifying them and setting a model for both from a single location.

P.S. I'm not sure but this may also be affecting MOUSETYPE.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run graphical YaST -> Hardware -> Mouse Model, select the mouse model you have.
2. Check /etc/sysconfig/mouse, see that MOUSEDEVICE is not set.
3. Run text-mode YaST -> Hardware -> Mouse Model, select the mouse model you have (if you can find it, since it's a different list).
4. Verify that MOUSEDEVICE is now set.



openSUSE 11.1 x86_64
Comment 1 Marcus Schaefer 2009-08-10 13:21:31 UTC 
assigned to maintainer
Comment 2 J. Daniel Schmidt 2009-08-17 15:11:53 UTC 
The mouse module got dropped for 11.2 together with monitor and keyboard, as they will be configured differently (automatically) with the new X-Server in future releases.

The remaining mouse module will only configure gpm - it will even run in text mode and graphical mode.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 462630 ***