tom wrote:
Greets all. Apologies to all for long message.
What is the next step to trouble shoot a frozen
keyboard and mouse when running a Xserver?
Do I modify in the Xserver by hand, or is there
another service I must deactivate, or do I modify
a init script to correct this?
I tried using xf86config, but RH no longer
follows the XFREE86 project standard configuration
file system. The scripts there fail miserably, and
are broken.
So I'm a little stuck. Here's my tale thus far;
Installation:
Downloaded RH8.0, confirmed MD5 checksum for all
iso's. Burned the 5 iso's.
A simple installation with RH 8.0 without problems,
all hardware detected, recommended programs installed.
Performed a custom install, asked for KDE and Gnome
( that I can tell ) and whatever else is available on
the iso's.
Asked ext2 partitions all around, /tmp /var /home /boot,
generous sized swap file and / directory.
I'd highly recommend using a journaling file system, either ext3,
reiser, or best of all XFS. An iso image of the RH 8.0 XFS installer is
available from SGI at:
ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/Release-1.2pre1/installer/forRH-8.0-SGI-XFS-1.2pre1.iso
GUI:
Problem: the X server locks up the mouse and keyboard
on GUI activation. From CLI, type in
]$ startx
IIRC, startx only starts the classic X-Windows. To start Gnome use
gnome-session, or for KDE use startkde. Better yet, use /sbin/telinit 5
to start the desktop manager.
Immediately Keyboard and Mouse dies. I can see GUI,
with all the icons, tabs, buttons, clock, mouse cursor,
but there my experience with RH 8.0 stops.
Tapping CAPSLOCK on keyboard DOES NOT work, keyboard
is completely dead. Lamp indicators stop to function,
including NUM-LOCK, SCROLL-LOCK.
Is it USB or PS/2?
Only way to get out of frozen GUI screen is to perform
power down. Literally
As long as I remain using the CLI, everything works
okay. However, I would like to try out the GUI.
Novice conclusion:
To me, my problem looks like the X server configuration.
However, just to be sure, I asked on alt.linux.redhat
about this, and someone mentioned there
that the power management on RH 8.0 was to blame.
So I though maybe turning off power management
would help. Tried to turn off using 'ntsysv',
but this configuration tool fails to turn 'apmd' off.
Attempting to use 'redhat-configure-services'
fails with return line calls from CLI with...
Traceback ( most recent call last ):
File "/usr/share/redhat-configure-services/serviceconf.py",
line 24, in ? import gtk
File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rhpl/__init__.py",
line 19, in ? # dummy __init__ so that things work
RuntimeError: could not open display
'Gtk-Warning **: cannot open display:'
---
Obviously, the new 'redhat-config-'s' are using GUI.
RedHat uses the chkconfig tool for command line service management. Do a
chkconfig --list to see the service name and runlevel of the services.
To shut off apmd use chkconfig --level 12345 apmd off This will turn off
apmd on all runlevels (12345) Also do a chkconfig --list | grep 3:on to
look at any others you may deem necessary to turn off, and substitute
5:on for GUI level services.
Tried 'redhat-config-xfree86' again same lock up, or if
it doesn't lock up, I get the screen, the prompt for the
display size, pixel width, fonts,
..but then the keyboard and mouse don't work, and I'm
rebooting again.
<snip>
From a RH 8.0 XF86Config file:
# File generated by anaconda.
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Anaconda Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Mouse1" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
# The location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the
# file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db"). There is normally
# no need to change the default.
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
# the X server to render fonts.
FontPath "unix/:7100"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "fbdevhw"
Load "dri"
Load "glx"
Load "record"
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "keyboard"
# Option "AutoRepeat" "500 5"
# when using XQUEUE, comment out the above line, and uncomment the
# following line
# Option "Protocol" "Xqueue"
# Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1))
# Option "Xleds" "1 2 3"
# To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable.
# Option "XkbDisable"
# To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the
# lines below (which are the defaults). For example, for a non-U.S.
# keyboard, you will probably want to use:
# Option "XkbModel" "pc102"
# If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use:
# Option "XkbModel" "microsoft"
#
# Then to change the language, change the Layout setting.
# For example, a german layout can be obtained with:
# Option "XkbLayout" "de"
# or:
# Option "XkbLayout" "de"
# Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
#
# If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and
# control keys, use:
# Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
#Option "XkbVariant" ""
#Option "XkbOptions" ""
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
--
Andrew Mathews
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7:45am up 7 days, 43 min, 5 users, load average: 1.11, 1.17, 1.16
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I knew one thing: as soon as anyone said you didn't need a gun, you'd better
take one along that worked.
-- Raymond Chandler
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