[ale] Fedora and Keyboard

[Mike Millson]

On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 09:18, Tim LaCroix wrote:
> I have just run into a very perplexing problem, I
> installed a dual boot system for a client, one with
> windows 2000 and fedora core 1. I thought it would be
> a good way to introduce him to linux while still
> having the security blanket of windows. I installed
> fedora at home with my own keyboard and mouse, when I
> brought the box to the client the keyboard did not
> work, the mouse is hooked to the usb and the keyboard
> is in the ps2 slot, anyone know why this happened? I
> am hoping to go and fix this so that the client has a
> good linux experience, I am going to try putting an
> adapter on the logitech mouse and run it off ps2 to
> see if that helps. Any suggestions or comments would
> be welcome!

Did your own keyboard plug into a PS/2 port and your own mouse into a
usb port? I don't think you can switch mouse types without making a
change to /etc/X11/X86Config. 

Check /var/log/XFree86.0.log for errors.

Maybe run redhat-config-xfree86 or the equivalent in Fedora to
reconfigure X.