Bug 141094

Summary:	SaX2 has no way to add serial mouse
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Brian Sutin <novell>
Component:	SaX2	Assignee:	Marcus Schaefer <ms>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	unspecified
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Hardware:	Other
OS:	SuSE Linux 10.0
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Description Brian Sutin 2005-12-29 02:32:33 UTC

If a serial mouse (ie, on the serial port) is added to the system, there is no way to tell SaX2 to go look for it.  "Mouse 1" can be set to a serial mouse, but the serial mouse will not work (SaX2 has not even asked which port).  If YaST has some other module to add new serial mice, I couldn't find it.

Comment 1 Marcus Schaefer 2006-01-03 10:08:49 UTC

A serial mouse is unfortunately the only device which is not handled by
the kernel input interface and therefore doesn't work immediately if plugged
in. To get that device visible in SaX you need to tell sax to reprobe for
new hardware. This can be done by calling:

   sax2 -r

Comment 2 Brian Sutin 2006-01-03 15:59:34 UTC

Aha!  Thanks for the tip.  A nice upgrade for SaX2 would be a note about this
in the mouse module.

Comment 3 Marcus Schaefer 2006-01-04 09:37:42 UTC

I added a note about hardware changes while starting up sax2 but
people often start sax from a menu and so the console messages are not
visible. To put that hint as graphics window on the screen will bother
the user too much...

Because of that reason we decided to add a note to the users manual
I think this should be ok for you as well, shouldn't it ?

Comment 4 Brian Sutin 2006-01-05 00:03:57 UTC

I agree completely!