instalation: serial mouse not detected in fc3 and fc4

[James Wilkinson]

Joao Miguel Ferreira wrote:
> During instalation of fc3 (and fc4) it doesn't detect my serial mouse
> (old mouse and old pc !!!, pentium @ 133MHz).
> 
> In fc3 I get a menu to configure the mouse manually but still it doesn't
> work. So I must proceed in text mode... 
> 
> Can I overcome this ? How ?
> And after install will I be able to correctly set up my mouse... how ?

See the release notes:
http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc4/#id2502071
http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc3/x86/#id850295

> Serial mice are known to be inoperative during installation. However,
> there are indications that serial mice work properly in X after the
> installation has completed. Refer to bug 119474 for more information:
>
> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=119474

Hope this helps,

James.

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