Re: Easy Guide Updates
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 06:46:13PM +0100, Bob Wilkinson wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 07:07:20PM -0400, B. Douglas Hilton wrote:
> > FYI, I believe the correct mouse setup procedure is to use
> > settrans with the appropriate protocol; e.g. ps/2, but the big
> > Hurd secret is to set the mouse type in XF86Config to
> > "osmouse". I posted something to this extent about adding
> > this info to the Debian Hurd setup FAQ a while back.
> >
>
> I'd set
>
> Option "Protocol" "osmouse"
> Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
>
> inside the InputDevices Section of XF86Config-4.
>
> I have a serial mouse - when I was using settrans with -protocol
> microsoft, I had a mouse which was jumpy (to say the least), when I
> used settrans (with the flags to start anew) and specified a
> protocol of logitech, it now works fine. I believe that was what
> Ivan was seeing, too.
>
> Now to find out why ssh has stopped working, and why I can't run X
> apart from as root...
Yes, that's right. My mouse translator is using protocol
"logitech" and my X-4 is using protocol "osmouse", as you said.
And now it works like silk. Does anybody else have the same
problem? Does the same solution work for you?
BTW, X only works as root because of the RPATH/LD_LIBRARY_PATH
problem. suid binaries override your environment settings (in the
sake of security), so X won't find libraries... Well, in fact I'm
not so sure, as long as /X11R6/bin/XFree86 is not linked with any
of them... :(
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