G'Day, Summary: Mouse does not function in KDE or Gnome after reboot.
Configuration: RedHat 7.2 Kernel 2.4.9-13 Xconfigurator-4.9.39-1 mouseconfig-4.23-1 microsoft serial mouse com1
Description: In order to enable the mouse in either KDE or Gnome mouseconfig and Xconfigurator where used after a workstation installation of RedHat 7.2. Everything functions normally. When the system is rebooted, Xconfigurator must be run in order to enable the mouse. This same problem existed with RedHat 7.1 installation. I am open to suggestions.
Sean
On Mon, 31 Dec 2001, S/C Conway wrote:
G'Day, Summary: Mouse does not function in KDE or Gnome after reboot.
Configuration: RedHat 7.2 Kernel 2.4.9-13 Xconfigurator-4.9.39-1 mouseconfig-4.23-1 microsoft serial mouse com1
Description: In order to enable the mouse in either KDE or Gnome mouseconfig and Xconfigurator where used after a workstation installation of RedHat 7.2. Everything functions normally. When the system is rebooted, Xconfigurator must be run in order to enable the mouse. This same problem existed with RedHat 7.1 installation. I am open to suggestions.
Sean
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This brings up some questions. Does the mouse function in a virtual terminal? If you come up under X-windows (runlevel 5) try Ctl-Alt-F2 and see if the mouse is working, ie; gpm is up and running.
Does the device in the Section "InputDevice" portion of /etc/X11/XF86Config (-4) exist? This might give a hint whether Xconfigurator is working correctly.
Anybody else got any ideas?
Might help if you post /var/log/XFree86.0.log so we can check it for errors/omissions.
Regards, Daryl
G'Day, I turned gpm off in an attempt to eliminate possible variables.
Enclosed is the mouse configs from:
XF86Config-4 Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" Option "Protocol" "Microsoft" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "on" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
XF86Config Protocol "Microsoft" Device "/dev/mouse"
Attached is a tarball of the Xfree log files. XFree86.0.log is the log when the mouse is working XFree86.0.log.bak is the log when the mouse is not working XFree86.0.log.diff is the difference between the two.
sean
Daryl F wrote:
On Mon, 31 Dec 2001, S/C Conway wrote:
G'Day, Summary: Mouse does not function in KDE or Gnome after reboot.
Configuration: RedHat 7.2 Kernel 2.4.9-13 Xconfigurator-4.9.39-1 mouseconfig-4.23-1 microsoft serial mouse com1
Description: In order to enable the mouse in either KDE or Gnome mouseconfig and Xconfigurator where used after a workstation installation of RedHat 7.2. Everything functions normally. When the system is rebooted, Xconfigurator must be run in order to enable the mouse. This same problem existed with RedHat 7.1 installation. I am open to suggestions.
Sean
Roundtable mailing list Roundtable@muug.mb.ca http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable
This brings up some questions. Does the mouse function in a virtual terminal? If you come up under X-windows (runlevel 5) try Ctl-Alt-F2 and see if the mouse is working, ie; gpm is up and running.
Does the device in the Section "InputDevice" portion of /etc/X11/XF86Config (-4) exist? This might give a hint whether Xconfigurator is working correctly.
Anybody else got any ideas?
Might help if you post /var/log/XFree86.0.log so we can check it for errors/omissions.
Regards, Daryl
Roundtable mailing list Roundtable@muug.mb.ca http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable
On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, S/C Conway wrote:
G'Day, I turned gpm off in an attempt to eliminate possible variables.
Enclosed is the mouse configs from:XF86Config-4 Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" Option "Protocol" "Microsoft" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "on" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
XF86Config Protocol "Microsoft" Device "/dev/mouse"
Attached is a tarball of the Xfree log files.XFree86.0.log is the log when the mouse is working XFree86.0.log.bak is the log when the mouse is not working XFree86.0.log.diff is the difference between the two.
sean
Daryl F wrote:
On Mon, 31 Dec 2001, S/C Conway wrote:
G'Day, Summary: Mouse does not function in KDE or Gnome after reboot.
Configuration: RedHat 7.2 Kernel 2.4.9-13 Xconfigurator-4.9.39-1 mouseconfig-4.23-1 microsoft serial mouse com1
Description: In order to enable the mouse in either KDE or Gnome mouseconfig and Xconfigurator where used after a workstation installation of RedHat 7.2. Everything functions normally. When the system is rebooted, Xconfigurator must be run in order to enable the mouse. This same problem existed with RedHat 7.1 installation. I am open to suggestions.
Sean
Roundtable mailing list Roundtable@muug.mb.ca http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable
This brings up some questions. Does the mouse function in a virtual terminal? If you come up under X-windows (runlevel 5) try Ctl-Alt-F2 and see if the mouse is working, ie; gpm is up and running.
Does the device in the Section "InputDevice" portion of /etc/X11/XF86Config (-4) exist? This might give a hint whether Xconfigurator is working correctly.
Anybody else got any ideas?
Might help if you post /var/log/XFree86.0.log so we can check it for errors/omissions.
Regards, Daryl
Roundtable mailing list Roundtable@muug.mb.ca http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable
Hmm, something's not right here. The log you said the mouse is not working in shows a fatal server error because it can't find your font server. So I guess the mouse wouldn't be working :)
Question is why does the font server disappear? I am not sure what is different in the way you're starting the Xserver between the two ways. It sounds like one way the font server is not getting started.
I don't use the font server. From what I've read it is only useful if multiple Xwindows servers are going to connect to your box AND they happen to be using the same fonts. I use the FontPath statements instead.
Also, regarding the config: do you have wheel mouse? If not I think the Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" is, IIRC, not needed.
Regards, Daryl
G'Day, I did not install (consciously) a font server.
Daryl F wrote:
On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, S/C Conway wrote:
G'Day, I turned gpm off in an attempt to eliminate possible variables.
Enclosed is the mouse configs from:XF86Config-4 Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" Option "Protocol" "Microsoft" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "on" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
XF86Config Protocol "Microsoft" Device "/dev/mouse"
Attached is a tarball of the Xfree log files.XFree86.0.log is the log when the mouse is working XFree86.0.log.bak is the log when the mouse is not working XFree86.0.log.diff is the difference between the two.
sean
Daryl F wrote:
On Mon, 31 Dec 2001, S/C Conway wrote:
G'Day, Summary: Mouse does not function in KDE or Gnome after reboot.
Configuration: RedHat 7.2 Kernel 2.4.9-13 Xconfigurator-4.9.39-1 mouseconfig-4.23-1 microsoft serial mouse com1
Description: In order to enable the mouse in either KDE or Gnome mouseconfig and Xconfigurator where used after a workstation installation of RedHat 7.2. Everything functions normally. When the system is rebooted, Xconfigurator must be run in order to enable the mouse. This same problem existed with RedHat 7.1 installation. I am open to suggestions.
Sean
Roundtable mailing list Roundtable@muug.mb.ca http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable
This brings up some questions. Does the mouse function in a virtual terminal? If you come up under X-windows (runlevel 5) try Ctl-Alt-F2 and see if the mouse is working, ie; gpm is up and running.
Does the device in the Section "InputDevice" portion of /etc/X11/XF86Config (-4) exist? This might give a hint whether Xconfigurator is working correctly.
Anybody else got any ideas?
Might help if you post /var/log/XFree86.0.log so we can check it for errors/omissions.
Regards, Daryl
Roundtable mailing list Roundtable@muug.mb.ca http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable
Hmm, something's not right here. The log you said the mouse is not working in shows a fatal server error because it can't find your font server. So I guess the mouse wouldn't be working :)
Question is why does the font server disappear? I am not sure what is different in the way you're starting the Xserver between the two ways. It sounds like one way the font server is not getting started.
I don't use the font server. From what I've read it is only useful if multiple Xwindows servers are going to connect to your box AND they happen to be using the same fonts. I use the FontPath statements instead.
Also, regarding the config: do you have wheel mouse? If not I think the Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" is, IIRC, not needed.
Regards, Daryl
Roundtable mailing list Roundtable@muug.mb.ca http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable
G'Day, Do to probing questions my problem has been solved or better yet a I have greater understanding of the inner workings of Linux. In short having no mouse was one problem. Xconfigurator fixed the mouse problem. I created the second problem by turning off XFS in services. It is my practice to turn off services that (I believe) are not used. After an initial install I turned off XFS a font server service. I have installed window managers on other Unix OS's and I never installed a font server to make it work. Xconfigurator starts the XFS service. Rebooting the computer shutdown the XFS daemon. Not being able to start a windows manager I assumed it was the mouse problem. Running Xconfigurator to correct what I thought was the original mouse problem was actually starting the XFS daemon. XFS starts and stops the X Font Server at boot time and shutdown. It also takes care of (re-)generating font lists.In linux without XFS service running, startx will not start a windows manager.
When Xconfigurator is ran it fires the XFS daemon only if you complete a START X test on the final step. xfs 597 1 3 18:31 ? 00:00:03 xfs -droppriv -daemon If you select skip for the START X test, the XFS service is not started.
Sean Thanks to all for your suggestions. Special thanks to Daryl for staying more focused than the person who had the problem.
S/C Conway wrote:
G'Day, I did not install (consciously) a font server.
Daryl F wrote:
On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, S/C Conway wrote:
G'Day, I turned gpm off in an attempt to eliminate possible variables.
Enclosed is the mouse configs from:XF86Config-4 Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" Option "Protocol" "Microsoft" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "on" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
XF86Config Protocol "Microsoft" Device "/dev/mouse"
Attached is a tarball of the Xfree log files.XFree86.0.log is the log when the mouse is working XFree86.0.log.bak is the log when the mouse is not working XFree86.0.log.diff is the difference between the two.
sean
Daryl F wrote:
On Mon, 31 Dec 2001, S/C Conway wrote:
G'Day, Summary: Mouse does not function in KDE or Gnome after reboot.
Configuration: RedHat 7.2 Kernel 2.4.9-13 Xconfigurator-4.9.39-1 mouseconfig-4.23-1 microsoft serial mouse com1
Description: In order to enable the mouse in either KDE or Gnome mouseconfig and Xconfigurator where used after a workstation installation of RedHat 7.2. Everything functions normally. When the system is rebooted, Xconfigurator must be run in order to enable the mouse. This same problem existed with RedHat 7.1 installation. I am open to suggestions.
Sean
Roundtable mailing list Roundtable@muug.mb.ca http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable
This brings up some questions. Does the mouse function in a virtual terminal? If you come up under X-windows (runlevel 5) try Ctl-Alt-F2 and see if the mouse is working, ie; gpm is up and running.
Does the device in the Section "InputDevice" portion of /etc/X11/XF86Config (-4) exist? This might give a hint whether Xconfigurator is working correctly.
Anybody else got any ideas?
Might help if you post /var/log/XFree86.0.log so we can check it for errors/omissions.
Regards, Daryl
Roundtable mailing list Roundtable@muug.mb.ca http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable
Hmm, something's not right here. The log you said the mouse is not working in shows a fatal server error because it can't find your font server. So I guess the mouse wouldn't be working :)
Question is why does the font server disappear? I am not sure what is different in the way you're starting the Xserver between the two ways. It sounds like one way the font server is not getting started.
I don't use the font server. From what I've read it is only useful if multiple Xwindows servers are going to connect to your box AND they happen to be using the same fonts. I use the FontPath statements instead.
Also, regarding the config: do you have wheel mouse? If not I think the Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" is, IIRC, not needed.
Regards, Daryl
Roundtable mailing list Roundtable@muug.mb.ca http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable
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