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CentOS and Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 « Ido’s Blog — Wed, 21 May 2008 20:36:37 +0000

[…] to make things like clock synchronization and the mouse work. Thanks to Todd Ogasawara’s Tech Blog for pointing me in the right direction on the kernel parameters. 3. I did, however, discover that […]

By: Ricardo

Ricardo — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:48:35 +0000

I’m trying to install OpenSUSE 10.2.
The Installation stops with error: “could not find OpenSUSE repository”.
I allready try install from ISO file and from CD.
It looks like after first installation steps run out, they dindn’t find the instalation source anymore.

Any Advice ?

By: Ido Dubrawsky

Ido Dubrawsky — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:13:14 +0000

I’ve gotten my new VM built. I did add the VMAdditions and followed the README as you mentioned. Missed that one…would have made my life a whole lot easier. As for the time sync issues — yes, even with vmadd-timesyncd I have some drift (on the order of a few seconds every couple of hours). I’m posting my experience with this here: http://www.dubrawsky.org/wordpress/?cat=3

By: Ido’s Blog » Blog Archive » CentOS and Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:49:24 +0000

[…] 1. Install using the ‘text’ option — if you try and use the graphics option then it’ll crash. Not a big deal 2. Once installed you need to add a variety of options to the grub boot line to make things like clock synchronization and the mouse work. Thanks to Todd Ogasawara’s Tech Blog for pointing me in the right direction on the kernel parameters. 3. I did, however, discover that the mouse still wouldn’t work without the proper X11 config (go figure). So, I did some digging around and this is what I found: […]

By: Ido Dubrawsky

Ido Dubrawsky — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:18:45 +0000

I had to rebuild the image so I’m in the process of adding the Virtual Machine Additions. The first time I used the generic Virtual Machine Additions. This time I’m building the image with the RedHat specific images. I’ll post a comment on my progress.

By: jmi

jmi — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 21:29:41 +0000

You don’t mention having the Virtual Machine Additions for (RedHat) Linux installed - do you have time sync issues even with vmadd-timesyncd running? VMAdditionsForLinux-README should give you enough information to solve the X issues as well.

By: Ido Dubrawsky

Ido Dubrawsky — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:42:34 +0000

Figured it out. I’ll post a blog on my website on it later. Turns out the “Device” option should be “/dev/input/mice” and the “Protocol” should be “explorerps/2″ It works now.

By: Ido Dubrawsky

Ido Dubrawsky — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:14:19 +0000

I added the i8042.noloop to my kernel boot line and now I see the mouse in the console window. However whenever I start X11 the mouse still doesn’t work. When I look at /proc/bus/input/devices I get for the mouse:

I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=000a Version=0000
N: Name=”TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint”
P: Phys=isa0060/serio0/input0
S: Sysfs=/class/input/input1
H: Handlers=mouse0 event1
B: EV=7
B: KEY=70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: REL=3

The entry in /etc/X11/xorg.conf is:

Section “InputDevice”
Identifier “Mouse0″
Driver “evdev”
Option “Protocol” “evdev”
Option “Dev Name” “TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint”
Option “Dev Phys” “isa0060/serio0/input0″
Option “Device” “/dev/input/mouse0″
Option “Buttons” “9″
Option “ZAxisMapping” “4 5″
EndSection

Any thoughts as to what I’m doing wrong. I suspect that the Driver in xorg.conf is incorrect but I know that the device file /dev/input/mouse0 was only created after I added the i8042.noloop kernel parameter.