One or Two Problemettes !

**Bubo** · 05-25-2005

Hi All

I have just installed Slack 10.1 from downloaded CD's having been trying various distro's for the last year or so. Slackware seems to offer what I am looking for but I will confess to being a little daunted by the absence of a ystem such as YAST, which I had in Suse. Thats okay though as I have picked Salck because I want to learn more about the way things happen in Linux.

I am running the 2.4.29 kernel with Xfce as a gui.

Anyway, onto the problems....

Firstly, I have created a user account:

Code:

useradd bubo
passwd xxxxxxxx

and so on. I have the system set up to boot to the command line so use "startx" to launch the gui. It works fine in the root account, but when I try as a normal user I get this...

Code:

Xauth&#58; timeout in locking authority file //.Xauthority

I assume it is a permissions problems of some sort but I can't for the life of me find where to rectify this.

Secondly, I have three button MS mouse (usb to a ps/2 adapter to a kvm switch) but the scroll wheel/centre button does not work. I have tried to look in /dev/mouse but the file appears empty. I am not sure that is the right place to look though.

Finally, I have no sound. I have a Abit mobo with onboard sound which used the "via82xx" module in Suse but I am getting nothing at all in slack. A clip of my lsmod is posted below for info...

Code:

root@ccu-linux&#58;~# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by    Tainted&#58; P
snd-pcm-oss            36704   0  &#40;unused&#41;
snd-mixer-oss          12152   2  &#91;snd-pcm-oss&#93;
8139too                13928   0  &#40;unused&#41;
ohci1394               23888   0  &#40;unused&#41;
ieee1394               41636   0  &#91;ohci1394&#93;
uhci                   24284   0  &#40;unused&#41;
ehci-hcd               17516   0  &#40;unused&#41;
usbcore                58860   1  &#91;uhci ehci-hcd&#93;
snd-via82xx            12928   2
gameport                1420   0  &#91;snd-via82xx&#93;
snd-ac97-codec         52472   0  &#91;snd-via82xx&#93;
snd-pcm                54504   0  &#91;snd-pcm-oss snd-via82xx snd-ac97-codec&#93;
snd-timer              13412   0  &#91;snd-pcm&#93;
snd-mpu401-uart         3200   0  &#91;snd-via82xx&#93;
snd-rawmidi            12320   0  &#91;snd-mpu401-uart&#93;
snd-seq-device          3812   0  &#91;snd-rawmidi&#93;
snd                    31268   0  &#91;snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-via82xx snd-ac97-codec snd-pcm snd-timer snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device&#93;
snd-page-alloc          4712   0  &#91;snd-mixer-oss snd-via82xx snd-pcm snd-timer snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd&#93;
soundcore               3396   4  &#91;snd&#93;
via-rhine              12368   1
mii                     2272   0  &#91;8139too via-rhine&#93;
crc32                   2880   0  &#91;8139too via-rhine&#93;
nvidia               3643836   6
ide-scsi                9392   0
agpgart                45092   3

Any help with these problems would be greatly appreciated.

Regards

Bubo

**techieMoe** · 05-25-2005

Originally Posted by Bubo

Secondly, I have three button MS mouse (usb to a ps/2 adapter to a kvm switch) but the scroll wheel/centre button does not work. I have tried to look in /dev/mouse but the file appears empty. I am not sure that is the right place to look though.

Look instead at your /etc/X11/xorg.conf or your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 (your distro will have one or the other). There's a section about halfway down that has your mouse settings. It will look sort of (but not exactly) like this:

Code:

Section "Pointer"
    Protocol    "PS/2"
    Device      "/dev/psaux"
EndSection

Add a line just before the "EndSection" tag that says Option "ZAxis Mapping" "4 5". In the end you should have something like this:

Code:

Section "Pointer"
    Protocol    "PS/2"
    Device      "/dev/psaux"
    Option      "ZAxis Mapping" "4 5"
EndSection

That should get your scroll wheel going.

**volkovalexander** · 05-25-2005

If you have upgraded your system from SuSE or any other distro and have your /home on a separate partition, it is likely that the permissions for your home directory are wrong. You can check that by doing ls -la /home/bubo

If you find a numeric value instead of your username - correct the mistake by doing

#chown -R bubo.users /home/bubo (need to use your ROOT account)

**puntmuts** · 05-25-2005

adduser is a nice script to add users and takes care of what's needed so this error won't happen.

In your xorg.conf you could also change the protocol to "IMPS/2" instead of PS/2 if it doesn't work after adding the ZAxisMapping line.

**Samoth** · 05-25-2005

I also have a Abit mobo with a VIA VT8237 chipset....The way I got sound running was by running

Code:

alsaconf

under root. Did you do this?????

NOTE: In response to "techiemoe" I had to change my mouse type to

Code:

Protocol     "IMPS/2"

. However

Code:

PS/2

may work as well.

**Bubo** · 05-31-2005

Thanks for the help guys.

I now have the sound and GUI with the standard user account working okay, so thats all good.

I have tried both suggestions regarding my mouse scroll wheel though and neither seem to work. I am more than a bit confused when I look in the X11 folder as I seem to have four (4) xorg.conf files as below:

Code:

-rw-r--r--   1 root root 15145 2005-05-31 15&#58;27 xorg.conf
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 17107 2004-09-18 23&#58;54 xorg.conf-fbdev
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 15865 2004-09-18 23&#58;54 xorg.conf-vesa
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 15867 2005-05-31 15&#58;11 xorg.conf~

Most of them seem to contain a lot of entries that I don't necessarily need, and which I can't get my head round. An example from xorg.conf below:

Code:

# **********************************************************************
# Core Pointer's InputDevice section
# **********************************************************************

Section "InputDevice"

# Identifier and driver

    Identifier "Mouse1"
    Driver "mouse"

# The available mouse protocols types that you can set below are&#58;
#    Auto BusMouse GlidePoint GlidePointPS/2 IntelliMouse IMPS/2
#    Logitech Microsoft MMHitTab MMSeries Mouseman MouseManPlusPS/2
#    MouseSystems NetMousePS/2 NetScrollPS/2 OSMouse PS/2 SysMouse
#    ThinkingMouse ThinkingMousePS/2 Xqueue
    Option "Protocol"    "PS/2"

# The mouse device.  The device is normally set to /dev/mouse,
# which is usually a symbolic link to the real device.

#   Option "Device"      "/dev/mouse"
    Option "Device"      "/dev/psaux"
#   Option "Device"      "/dev/ttyS0"
#   Option "Device"      "/dev/ttyS1"
    Option "ZAxis Mapping" "4 5"
EndSection

# Some examples of extended input devices

As you can see, I have tried to edit it to inlcude the suggestions made (IMPS/2 did not work either) but still no scroll wheel.

Is there anything else I can try ?

Cheers

Bubo

**retired1af** · 05-31-2005

OK.. Here's the relevant sections from my xorg.conf file using VectorLinux (Slackware 10.1 based). I use a plain ol' MS Wheel Mouse with two buttons. I should probably add that I'm using kernel 2.6.11.2.

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"

# On platforms where PnP mouse detection is supported the following
# protocol setting can be used when using auto.
# Otherwise set it manually to:
# Auto BusMouse GlidePoint GlidePointPS/2 IntelliMouse IMPS/2
# Logitech Microsoft MMHitTab MMSeries Mouseman MouseManPlusPS/2
# MouseSystems NetMousePS/2 NetScrollPS/2 OSMouse PS/2 SysMouse
# ThinkingMouse ThinkingMousePS/2 Xqueue
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" ## MOUSE_PROTOCOL

# Baudrate and SampleRate are only for some Logitech mice. In
# almost every case these lines should be omitted.
# Option "BaudRate" "9600"
# Option "SampleRate" "150"
# ChordMiddle is an option for some 3-button Logitech mice
# Option "ChordMiddle"

# Emulate3Buttons is an option for 2-button Microsoft mice
# Emulate3Timeout is the timeout in milliseconds (default is 50ms)
# Option "Emulate3Buttons" ## MOUSE_E3BUTTONS
# Option "Emulate3Timeout" "50"

# Settings for newer IMPS/2 mouse (with wheel)
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" ## MOUSE_ZAXISMAPPING
Option "Buttons" "5" ## MOUSE_BUTTONS
Option "SendCoreEvents" ## MOUSE_SENDCOREEVENTS

EndSection

**retired1af** · 05-31-2005

Originally Posted by Bubo

Thanks for the help guys.

I have tried both suggestions regarding my mouse scroll wheel though and neither seem to work. I am more than a bit confused when I look in the X11 folder as I seem to have four (4) xorg.conf files as below:

Most of them seem to contain a lot of entries that I don't necessarily need, and which I can't get my head round. An example from xorg.conf below:

Code:

#   Option "Device"      "/dev/mouse"

Why is your Option for /dev/mouse commented out?

**Bubo** · 05-31-2005

Thanks retired1af

I changed my mouse identifier from 1 to 0 and the scroll wheel started working following a reboot. Don't know why it got set to 1 on install though?

Anyhow, is it usual to have all those xorg.conf files? Can I remove the other, or is it best to leave well alone?

Regards

Bubo

**retired1af** · 05-31-2005

Yeah, it's standard. Leave 'em alone. They'll be used for other boot options if you use them. (Like init1 init2, etc.)

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