One or Two Problemettes !

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

Any help with these problems would be greatly appreciated.

Regards

Bubo

Re: One or Two Problemettes !

Quote:

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.

Your home directory

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)

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.

Sound

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.

Thanks for the help guys.

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

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

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.

Quote:

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

Quote:

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?

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

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