Hi folks --
Just braving the world of X11 with the Sparc but it doesn't want to find
/dev/mouse - is this meant to be a symlink to elsewhere?
Cheers,
J.
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Joel Rowbottom BSc (Hons) - Opinions are not necessarily those of others
Technical Director, Mailbox Internet Ltd, UK - Self-confessed
> Just braving the world of X11 with the Sparc but it doesn't want to find
> /dev/mouse - is this meant to be a symlink to elsewhere?
Yeah, as root, you have to "ln -s /dev/sunmouse /dev/mouse".
Also, I wasn't able to run X as a non-root users until I ran
"chmod 666 /dev/fb?" as root as well, an
Joel Rowbottom wrote on Wed, 31 Mar 1999 09:55:17 +0100
> Just braving the world of X11 with the Sparc but it doesn't want to find
> /dev/mouse - is this meant to be a symlink to elsewhere?
Hi, I've installed slink-sparc to SS20 yesterday.
I've got same problem.It must link to /dev/sunmouse.
and n
Joshua Uziel wrote on Wed, 31 Mar 1999 01:12:32 -0800 (PST)
> Also, I wasn't able to run X as a non-root users until I ran
> "chmod 666 /dev/fb?" as root as well, and you may have to do
> the same. Took me a while to figure this one out, along
> with the fact that strace would segfault when I'd tr
> > Also, I wasn't able to run X as a non-root users until I ran
> > "chmod 666 /dev/fb?" as root as well, and you may have to do
> > the same. Took me a while to figure this one out, along
> > with the fact that strace would segfault when I'd try to run
> > "strace startx" either as myself or ro
On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Joshua Uziel wrote:
> Also, I wasn't able to run X as a non-root users until I ran
> "chmod 666 /dev/fb?" as root as well, and you may have to do
> the same. Took me a while to figure this one out, along
> with the fact that strace would segfault when I'd try to run
> "strace
Joshua Uziel wrote on Wed, 31 Mar 1999 02:57:14 -0800 (PST)
>
> > > Also, I wasn't able to run X as a non-root users until I ran
> > > "chmod 666 /dev/fb?" as root as well, and you may have to do
> > > the same. Took me a while to figure this one out, along
> > > with the fact that strace would s
> That's interesting, given that /dev/fb* were all mode 664 root/root for me
> already. Is your /usr/X11R6/bin/X setuid root? (Not the X server itself,
> but the wrapper therefor.)
[9:33am] sparcy:~> ls -l /usr/X11R6/bin/X
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 4952 Feb 23 23:01 /usr/X11R6/bin/X
> I think so. :-)
>
> Maybe to launch X Window on sparc that needs not only
> /dev/fb?, but also /dev/fb[01]autodetect and
> /dev/fd[01]user[0-7], don't you?
Hmm... well I don't have the autodetect or user devices
and things seem to be working fine for me. Which document
are you seeing those
Why can't we solve this problem permanently?
I'd like to file important bugs against the right packages, but I'm
not sure which ones are the right packages:
* is it a bug that /dev/mouse is not a symlink to /dev/sunmouse?
What would make that link? basefiles or some such?
* is it instead a bug
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