[SLUG] Fwd: Xorg -- 'No Core Pointer' ?
Sluggers, having lost cursor function and sound, Google led me to someone who solved a similar problem via 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg' and adding psmouse and mousedev to /etc/modules .. strictly in that order. I tried the same, but with less success .. Initially, an error message told me that /dev/mouse could not be found, as specified in /etc/X11/xorg.conf [I seem to remember that /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 contained two paragraphs on the mouse specifying it as both /dev/psaux and /dev/mouse] Someone suggested changing /dev/mouse in /etc/X11/xorg.conf to /dev/input/mice .. so I did. Next I tried 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg' but whether it was /dev/mouse, /dev/input/mice, or /dev/psaux in the only mouse defining paragraph it contains, X refused to load with variations on the theme .. (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice No Such Device (EE) Configured Mouse: Cannot open input device (EE) PreInit failed for input device Configured Mouse (II) Unload module mouse (WW) No core pointer registered (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device Generic Keyboard (types KEYB .. (EE) Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap. No Core Pointer Fatal Server Error: failed to initialise core devices .. which has led me to rediscover the utility of text-based apps such as mutt, lynx, and snownews. One complication may be that I originally configured /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 on an MS IntelliMouse but have since switched to an A4TECH wireless optical mouse, model RFSOP-48 (RP-648), in which the receiver acts as a battery (re)charger. It works on my seldom-used XP drive. I modprobed psmouse and mousedev, but can only find psmouse (of the two) in /etc/modules. I went through this what seems like a long time ago with /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and it seems strange having to do it again. I attach the last part of /var/log/Xorg.0/log .. there has to be a simple way to get the core pointer and X server working again. Adam Bogacki, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/psaux No such device. (EE) Configured Mouse: cannot open input device (EE) PreInit failed for input device Configured Mouse (II) UnloadModule: mouse (WW) No core pointer registered (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device Generic Keyboard (type: KEYBOARD) (EE) Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap No core pointer Fatal server error: failed to initialize core devices Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support at http://wiki.X.Org for help. Please also check the log file at /var/log/Xorg.0.log for additional information. - End forwarded message - signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] ISP
Does anyone has a recommendation for business ISP's? Some good experience regarding reliability and service? Juergen DaZZa wrote: On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Juergen Busam wrote: Can anyone recommend a reliable ISP (with good Overseas connection) with at least the possibility to have 3M down and 640 K Up, or even better a symmetric connection with 3M down and up? Your options are fairly limited in speed. Unless you're living within a short distance of one of the exchanges which have been upgraded to ADSL2+, you're not going to get 3 meg on an average ADSL connection. You *might* get lucky with a business grade connection if you're not on an exchange which isn't ADSL2+ - but if you did you'd be up for at least $1000 a month. Internode is one ISP which has some exchanges at ADSL2+ - check out http://cgi.agile.com.au/cgi-bin/dsl-coverage-table?Carrier=Agile for exchanges which are enabled and http://www.internode.on.net/adsl2/ for more information regarding the plans. http://bc.whirlpool.net.au/bc-plan.cfm is the place to check for compatible xDSL/Cable plans. DaZZa -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Fwd: Xorg -- 'No Core Pointer' ?
This one time, at band camp, Adam Bogacki wrote: Sluggers, having lost cursor function and sound, Google led me to someone who solved a similar problem via 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg' and adding psmouse and mousedev to /etc/modules .. strictly in that order. So, do you have a PS/2 mouse or a USB mouse? Is your CorePointer now /dev/psaux or /dev/input/mice? If it's USB mouse, does dmesg show the kernel recognising it when you plug it in? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Sydney Open Solaris User Group - Meeting Oct 17th 6:30pm
Matthew Hannigan wrote: On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 06:40:58AM +1000, Jamie Honan wrote: I have a problem with the original 'kissed a girl' posting. Superficially it looks amusing. In fact it is an ad hominem attack on Dave Miller. I thought it was hilarious. It never occurred to me think that it was meant in a mean way, or that Dave Miller took at as such. After seeing Bryan's talk last night I'm even more sure that this was the case! A great, humourous presenter who really knows his stuff. Rather than reply to Dave's detailed points, he attempts to ridicule him. I saw it as an _acknowledgement_ that Dave had excellent points by admitting he had no substantive comeback. A great talker maybe but when he has no substantive comeback he attempts a personal attack. Not nice. Ken Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] SLUG Monthly Meeting: Friday, October 21st.
When: Friday, October 21, 6:30pm - 9:30pm Where: UTS Broadway SLUG's monthly meeting featuring talks and SLUGlets. Meetings are open to the general public, and free of charge. Room 2.4.11 (Building 2, Level 4, Room 11), at UTS Broadway (There is a map of UTS availible at http://www.uts.edu.au/about/mapsdirections/bway.html). General Talk: Russel Coker - SELinux NSA Security-enhanced Linux is a set of patches to the Linux kernel and some utilities to incorporate a strong, flexible mandatory access control (MAC) architecture into the major subsystems of the kernel. It provides a mechanism to enforce the separation of information based on confidentiality and integrity requirements, which allows threats of tampering and bypassing of application security mechanisms to be addressed and enables the confinement of damage that can be caused by malicious or flawed applications. It includes a set of sample security policy configuration files designed to meet common, general-purpose security goals. Special Interest Talk Chris Deigan will be speaking on /home away from home Increasingly these days, people are required to use computers from all sorts of places, and from all kinds of networks, the trusted and the untrusted. In this talk I'll run through various tricks, acrobatics and fun people can perform accessing their home computers using SSH, VNC and a a small host of their friends. As usual, SLUGlets will be running in another room during the 2nd half of the meeting for those who do not wish to attend the 2nd talk. 6:30pm: Doors Open 6:45pm: The Usual Suspects QA - Introduction to SLUG + What has Linux done for/to me lately? + SLUG News Discussion 7:00pm (approx): General Talk Russel Coker: SELinux 8:00pm (approx): Break Refreshments in the foyer, for a small covering charge. 8:20pm (approx): Split into two groups for: * Special Interest Talk: Chris Deigan - /home away from home * SLUGlets: quick talks and discussion of Linux and Free Software. 9:30pm (approx) Dinner Dinner at Spice Boys (Indian), $20 per head. Cheers, -Chris. -- linux.conf.au 2006 - http://linux.conf.au/ - Dunedin, NZ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Fwd: Xorg -- 'No Core Pointer' ?
On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 21:12 +1300, Adam Bogacki wrote: Someone suggested changing /dev/mouse in /etc/X11/xorg.conf to /dev/input/mice .. so I did. ... One complication may be that I originally configured /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 on an MS IntelliMouse but have since switched to an A4TECH wireless optical mouse, model RFSOP-48 (RP-648), in which the receiver acts as a battery (re)charger. It works on my seldom-used XP drive. If you are using a USB mouse then you want the usbhid module (USB human interface device). This should be loaded by hotplug automatically. That will create the /dev/input/mice device for you. The relevant part of my xorg.conf is: Section InputDevice Identifier Configured Mouse Driver mouse Option CorePointer Option Device /dev/input/mice Option Protocol ImPS/2 Option Emulate3Buttons true Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection This was created by the Ubuntu installer. -- Simon Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] mixing ip6 with ip4
Dear list, I have been playing with Asterisk and with the known problems of SIP using NAT I wonder what happens if I only used IP6. There is talk of using a large number (several thousand) Asterisk boxen connected via wifi / wimax in a mesh only using IP6. What happens when the Voice calls leave the mesh and enter the normal Internet cloud? -- Richard Hayes Nada Marketing PO Box 12 Gordon Australia 2072 Tel: +(61-2) 9412 4367 Fax: +(61-2) 9412 4920 Mob: +(61) 0414 618 425 www.nada.com.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
RE: [SLUG] ISP
Have been using EXL for a number of years (formerly Webfasttrack) great service, very knowledgabale. We currently run 2mBSDSL with a fully managed firewall etc - our cap is 60GB per month we normally use about 30GB Contact Stuart Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.exl.com.au Have even had them login to my network and fix a problem for me when I was overseas on holiday and got an urgent call from work. (Not a very good internet connection from the Cook Glacier!) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Juergen Busam Sent: Tue, 18. October 2005 6:31 PM Cc: slug@slug.org.au Subject: Re: [SLUG] ISP Does anyone has a recommendation for business ISP's? Some good experience regarding reliability and service? Juergen DaZZa wrote: On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Juergen Busam wrote: Can anyone recommend a reliable ISP (with good Overseas connection) with at least the possibility to have 3M down and 640 K Up, or even better a symmetric connection with 3M down and up? Your options are fairly limited in speed. Unless you're living within a short distance of one of the exchanges which have been upgraded to ADSL2+, you're not going to get 3 meg on an average ADSL connection. You *might* get lucky with a business grade connection if you're not on an exchange which isn't ADSL2+ - but if you did you'd be up for at least $1000 a month. Internode is one ISP which has some exchanges at ADSL2+ - check out http://cgi.agile.com.au/cgi-bin/dsl-coverage-table?Carrier=Agile for exchanges which are enabled and http://www.internode.on.net/adsl2/ for more information regarding the plans. http://bc.whirlpool.net.au/bc-plan.cfm is the place to check for compatible xDSL/Cable plans. DaZZa -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Re: Xorg -- 'No Core Pointer'
Hi Jamie, So, do you have a PS/2 mouse or a USB mouse? .. it is a USB mouse using a PS/2 adapter which has always been sucessfully configured as PS/2. Is your CorePointer now /dev/psaux or /dev/input/mice? /dev/input/mice If it's USB mouse, does dmesg show the kernel recognising it when you plug it in? In tty1 text mode it flashes by too quickly .. is there an appropriate log file where I can use vi ? --- Xie Xie, Simon. If you are using a USB mouse then you want the usbhid module (USB human interface device). This should be loaded by hotplug automatically. That will create the /dev/input/mice device for you. Tux:~# modprobe usbhid FATAL:Module usbhid not found .. which should not be a problem as it has always been successfully configured as PS/2. The relevant part of my xorg.conf is: Section InputDevice Identifier Configured Mouse Driver mouse Option CorePointer Option Device /dev/input/mice Option Protocol ImPS/2 Option Emulate3Buttons true Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection This was created by the Ubuntu installer. I reproduced the above in my /etc/X11/corg.conf - I was not sure if the position of /dev/input/mice was intentional or an email artifact so I tried both - with the same result as before (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice No such device. (EE) Configured Mouse: cannot open input device (EE) PreInit failed for input device Configured Mouse (II) UnloadModule: mouse (WW) No core pointer registered (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device Generic Keyboard (type: KEYBOARD) (EE) Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap No core pointer Fatal server error: failed to initialize core devices I could not load the usbhid module, nor mousedev - I don't understand why. This Debain unstable system has been pretty stable so far apart from the occasional dist-upgrade - probably the reason for having to work through this again. Cheers, Adam Bogacki, [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Re: slug Digest, Vol 31, Issue 35
Hey Sluggers First time post, on recommendation from a karting buddy (hi mal) We're a digital animation studio, so mostly we run 3dsMax and Photoshop on Win XP but we have a central server which I built with Mepis 3.3.1 (a Debian deriv). If it matters, it's a P4 2.5Ghz w/ 2gb RAM, 15Gb root, 4 gig swap and 50 gig Home and 250Gb shared disk On each XP machine I've mapped a network drive to the shared disk on the servermapped as Drive S: I have run into several issues when reading/writing files from WinXP machines. 1) On the XP machines whenever I try to open a file on S: drive, the first request to open is ignored, then the 2nd attempt works fine.why? It's x. annoying ,and fatal for any automated rendering task that requires access to external files on S: drive. (I suspect it's a network setting in WinXp) 2) When I'm in Photoshop or any other package on XP, I can "Save" files with no problem. When I try to "Save as" the server blocks my attempt to write a file, instead puts an undeletable 0kb file under the same name. We have to "save as" locally and then copy to the server manually, after deleting the 0Kb file as root..understandably v.annoying. I've trawled #debian, #mepis and #samba on Freenode, also googled till I've droppedusual black magic but no real luck. Anyone got any clues that could help? My slugs comes as digest format daily, so please forgive my delayed response on list. Either that or email me direct. thanks for your patience. cheers James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Re: Xorg -- 'No Core Pointer'
This one time, at band camp, Adam Bogacki wrote: In tty1 text mode it flashes by too quickly .. is there an appropriate log file where I can use vi ? dmesg | less less /var/log/messages less /var/log/syslog -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Kernel Panic since USN-199-1
On Tuesday 18 October 2005 15:06, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=James Gray This is a great report, you should definitely file a bug. :-) Cool.where? Does Ubuntu/Kubuntu have a Bugzilla site or something? Whoa, dude: bugzilla.ubuntu.com - Jeff I'll log a bug once I've finished making sure no-one else has entered the same thing. BTW, I'm pretty sure I've confirmed it as kernel bug and not a hardware fault. I installed the 2.6.12 amd64-k8 kernel last night and wrote a script to load every memory hog I can (right up to chewing about 500MB of swap), then kill them, then reload them etc. Ran for almost 9 hours without a single problem on the 2.6.12 kernel. Ran for about 45 seconds on the 2.6.10-5 amd65-k8 kernel before panicing. Just thought I'd post this as a work-around in case anyone else is having a problem. FYI the 2.6.12 kernel in the breezy repositories is compiled with gcc-3.4 so if you're running the NVidia drivers that *DON'T* come with Ubuntu/Kubuntu, you'll need to sudo apt-get install gcc-3.4 then CC=/usr/bin/gcc-3.4 ; export CC before running the NVidia installer. Usual disclaimers apply. Cheers, James -- You will inherit millions of dollars. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Debian server issues with WinXP
Hey Sluggers First time post, on recommendation from a karting buddy (hi mal) We're a digital animation studio, so mostly we run 3dsMax and Photoshop on Win XP but we have a central server which I built with Mepis 3.3.1 (a Debian deriv). If it matters, it's a P4 2.5Ghz w/ 2gb RAM, 15Gb root, 4 gig swap and 50 gig Home and 250Gb shared disk On each XP machine I've mapped a network drive to the shared disk on the servermapped as Drive S: I have run into several issues when reading/writing files from WinXP machines. 1) On the XP machines whenever I try to open a file on S: drive, the first request to open is ignored, then the 2nd attempt works fine.why? It's x. annoying ,and fatal for any automated rendering task that requires access to external files on S: drive. (I suspect it's a network setting in WinXp) 2) When I'm in Photoshop or any other package on XP, I can "Save" files with no problem. When I try to "Save as" the server blocks my attempt to write a file, instead puts an undeletable 0kb file under the same name. We have to "save as" locally and then copy to the server manually, after deleting the 0Kb file as root..understandably v.annoying. I've trawled #debian, #mepis and #samba on Freenode, also googled till I've droppedusual black magic but no real luck. Anyone got any clues that could help? My slugs comes as digest format daily, so please forgive my delayed response on list. Either that or email me direct. thanks for your patience. cheers James -- James Neale Promotion Studios GPO Box 7027 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia studio: 61-2-8394-9007 office : 61-2-9299-9220 e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] w: www.promotionstudios.com -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] rdiff-backup - does it work as advertised?
I've been advised to use rdiff-backup for backing up (!) and it looks very nice. Has anyone any experience with this tool? If so, how do you test it's integrity and what if any problems did you encounter? I've spot checked the mirrors that it creates and they look perfect (correct byte counts, user/groups look good, spot checking files look good) but I don't want to put my eggs in this basket and find out the hard way that the basket has holes. Also, I have no idea how to test the restore functions without actually restoring, which I only want to do in the case of a crisis. Does anyone have suggestions about this? -- David McQuire -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Kernel Panic since USN-199-1
On Tuesday 18 October 2005 15:06, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=James Gray This is a great report, you should definitely file a bug. :-) Cool.where? Does Ubuntu/Kubuntu have a Bugzilla site or something? Whoa, dude: bugzilla.ubuntu.com - Jeff The plot thickens. This whole debacle may be an upgrade/dpkg problem. I'm dist-upgrading my lappy at the moment and noticed it has grabbed the 2.6.12 kernel. But my desktop system stayed on the 2.6.10/Hoary kernel until I manually apt-get install'ed the 2.6.12 kernel this morning. Thoughts people? Anyone else seen this? Is there a funky option somewhere that would prevent a kernel update during a dist-upgrade? James -- BOFH excuse #282: High altitude condensation from U.S.A.F prototype aircraft has contaminated the primary subnet mask. Turn off your computer for 9 days to avoid damaging it. pgplt2uDCR8nS.pgp Description: PGP signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] server-status denied by config (but which one?)
I'm trying to re-enable /server-status on my Apache 1.3x, but I obviously have something I don't understand in my conf (so what else is knew, you might ask...) browser says: Forbidden You don't have permission to access /server-status on this server. error logs says: client denied by server configuration: /home/domain/www/server-status I have in main httpd.conf: Directory / Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Order deny,allow Deny from all /Directory ... Location /server-status SetHandler server-status Order deny,allow Deny from all Allow from localhost 220.xxx.yyy.zzz /Location I copied same to my vhost conf (just in case...) didn't help in the vhost I have something like: Directory /home/domain/www Options Indexes FollowSymLinks +IncludesNOEXEC AllowOverride AuthConfig Order allow,deny Allow from all /Directory -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] server-status denied by config (but which one?)
when playing silly games with apache. i like to peel everything back and then work from there ie. allow from all, deny from none make sure that works then flip stuff around etc Dean Voytek wrote: I'm trying to re-enable /server-status on my Apache 1.3x, but I obviously have something I don't understand in my conf (so what else is knew, you might ask...) browser says: Forbidden You don't have permission to access /server-status on this server. error logs says: client denied by server configuration: /home/domain/www/server-status I have in main httpd.conf: Directory / Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Order deny,allow Deny from all /Directory ... Location /server-status SetHandler server-status Order deny,allow Deny from all Allow from localhost 220.xxx.yyy.zzz /Location I copied same to my vhost conf (just in case...) didn't help in the vhost I have something like: Directory /home/domain/www Options Indexes FollowSymLinks +IncludesNOEXEC AllowOverride AuthConfig Order allow,deny Allow from all /Directory -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Debian server issues with WinXP
James Neale wrote:
I have run into several issues when reading/writing files from WinXP
machines.
Anyone got any clues that could help?
the save as sounds like permissions on the linux server.
Does the user that you attach/logon to the linux server have permission
to write to the directory where the files are stored?
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