Using the F23 workstation net install ISO, installation is nearly impossible because the touchpad is not working and the selected buttons are not clearly indicated. The touchpad works in the BIOS.
I'd be happy to solve this issue after installation if I could get that done. But using TAB etc to navigate is difficult since the selected buttons are not marked clearly. Even that would be ok if I could properly anticipate button sequence and just count TABs, but the sequence seems erratic. I usually hit the wrong buttons.
There must be some boot option switch to correct this issue. Is there?
On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 1:52 PM, CLOSE Dave Dave.Close@us.thalesgroup.com wrote:
Using the F23 workstation net install ISO, installation is nearly impossible because the touchpad is not working and the selected buttons are not clearly indicated. The touchpad works in the BIOS.
Could you plug in a mouse?
Ted Roche wrote:
Could you plug in a mouse?
Ah, that's too simple! I'm embarrassed. Of course that works.
But I standby my complaints about how it doesn't work to do it using the keyboard. Because the selected buttons are not clearly indicated and are not arranged in a predictable sequence.
On Tue, 1 Mar 2016 16:15:25 -0800 CLOSE Dave Dave.Close@us.thalesgroup.com wrote:
But I standby my complaints about how it doesn't work to do it using the keyboard. Because the selected buttons are not clearly indicated and are not arranged in a predictable sequence.
I agree with you. But mentioning it here probably won't get it fixed. If you want to up the chances it will be fixed, go to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/, and open a ticket against anaconda, and describe the problem. That doesn't guarantee it will get fixed, but the maintainers will definitely see the problem, so they will be aware of it. And thus there is a much better chance it'll get fixed.
If you have clear ideas about what would fix this, or how it should work, you could describe them, as well.
On Tue, 1 Mar 2016 16:15:25 -0800 CLOSE Dave Dave.Close@us.thalesgroup.com wrote:
But I standby my complaints about how it doesn't work to do it using the keyboard. Because the selected buttons are not clearly indicated and are not arranged in a predictable sequence.
I had a thought about this. If they had the gpm package installed for a text base install, that would mean that the mouse was available even in the console. That wouldn't work in all cases, as you've experienced, but it would help for anyone that had a mouse attached. I know gpm also works with trackballs, and I think it even handles touchpads, but I'm not sure.