Re: [blfs-support] Xorg in qemu - no mouse cursor with the 1.17.0 server

2015-02-11 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 04:17:22PM -0500, Michael Shell wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Feb 2015 02:21:59 +
> Ken Moffat  wrote:
> 
> > If I then add '-display sdl' it complains that it could not
> > read keymap file en_GB
> 
> 
> I would change the other parameters (keymap, etc.) to whatever would
> allow (not error on) -display sdl with -show-cursor just to be sure to
> rule that cause out. I would also try changing any other parameters
> I could just to see if they have any effect on the problem, such as
> removing -usbdevice table or trying -usbdevice mouse.
> 
> 
>   Cheers,
> 
>   Mike

 Mike - thanks for those comments.  I would be reluctant to run it
without the tablet setting (I had to when I was playing with my TeX
scripts in FreeBSD, and it was really awkward), but in fact there is
now no need.  Before I read your mail I had tried moving all the
tablet parameters to the end of my script, only to get the same error
about the keymap (I had started by wondering if a parameter was
being swallowed, causing things to get out of kilter, because I had
seen that while I was ironing-out my script).

 That setting had been there since I started using qemu, but to be
honest it was not giving me a lot - in distro iso files I got
whatever they supplied, and I always adjusted installed systems to
use a suitable keymap.  So the keymap error looks to be new when
running the 3.19 kernel (previous attempts were in 3.19-rc6 or
3.19-rc7) and I installed 3.19.0 before yesterday's testing.  Looks
like a kernel change, but I hesitate to describe it as a regression
because it never really did anything useful for me.

 And with the full addition including -display sdl, I've got my
mouse cursor back. ;-)  Thanks again, I don't know why those options
have suddenly become required (some of the links were quite old),
maybe it is another change rather than Xorg.  [ /me looks at git
blame for my qemu version : that changed to 2.2.0 in January.  And I
suppose that my other qemu tests in this build were only for server
packages. ]

 The joys of testing when multiple components have changed ;-)

 Cheers.

ĸen
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Re: [blfs-support] Xorg in qemu - no mouse cursor with the 1.17.0 server

2015-02-11 Thread Michael Shell
On Wed, 11 Feb 2015 02:21:59 +
Ken Moffat  wrote:

> If I then add '-display sdl' it complains that it could not
> read keymap file en_GB


I would change the other parameters (keymap, etc.) to whatever would
allow (not error on) -display sdl with -show-cursor just to be sure to
rule that cause out. I would also try changing any other parameters
I could just to see if they have any effect on the problem, such as
removing -usbdevice table or trying -usbdevice mouse.


  Cheers,

  Mike
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Re: [blfs-support] Xorg in qemu - no mouse cursor with the 1.17.0 server

2015-02-10 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 08:29:21PM -0500, Michael Shell wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 23:58:33 +
> Ken Moffat  wrote:
> 
> >  I had got as far a building fluxbox, then discovered that it was very
> > hard to use because the mouse pointer no longer shows up.
> 
> 
> I dunno if this is the problem, but:
> 
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19665412/mouse-and-keyboard-not-working-in-qemu-emulator
> http://osdir.com/ml/qemu-devel/2007-03/msg00220.html
> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.virtualization/2586
> 
> 
> In short try: 
> 
> -show-cursor -display sdl
> 
> 
>   Cheers,
> 
>   Mike Shell

 Thanks, but for the moment it isn't helping.  I usually invoke qemu
with a script in /usr/bin called just 'qemu', so I copied that to
the current directory.  If I add only -show-cursor (after -usb
-usbdevice tablet) it makes no difference.  If I then add '-display
sdl ' it complains that it could not read keymap file en_GB : the
remaining parms after sdl are:
 -cpu kvm64 -monitor stdio -smp 4 -vga std -k en_GB

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Re: [blfs-support] Xorg in qemu - no mouse cursor with the 1.17.0 server

2015-02-10 Thread Michael Shell
On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 23:58:33 +
Ken Moffat  wrote:

>  I had got as far a building fluxbox, then discovered that it was very
> hard to use because the mouse pointer no longer shows up.


I dunno if this is the problem, but:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19665412/mouse-and-keyboard-not-working-in-qemu-emulator
http://osdir.com/ml/qemu-devel/2007-03/msg00220.html
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.virtualization/2586


In short try: 

-show-cursor -display sdl


  Cheers,

  Mike Shell




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