topic Spaceball 5000 in Operating System - HP-UX

Spaceball 5000

Geetha_1 — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 15:13:29 GMT

I installed the HP spaceball 5000 driver (xdriver) and the spaceball works fine for root. But, non-root users can't see the spaceball icon on their desktop (CDE) nor does the spaceball work for them. Can anyone help? Thanks.
Geetha.

Re: Spaceball 5000

Steven E. Protter — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 19:59:44 GMT

Its probably just file permissions.

Whereever this stuff is installed check permissions.

chmod a+rx and that should make the program work.

If there is some kind of database all users will need to write to it.

I don't want to know what spaceball is. To me, its a program for X.

SEP

Re: Spaceball 5000

V. Nyga — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 12:14:18 GMT

Hi,

do you mean the auto-started 'SpaceMouse Motion Control Center'?
Then you have to edit this file:
/etc/dt/config/Xconfig

Uncomment his line:
Dtlogin*authorize: False

Then reboot or make a
'/sbin/init.d/dtlogin.rc reset'

That will work.

Volkmar
*With special thanks to pharaoh RJ*

Re: Spaceball 5000

Geetha_1 — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 15:55:46 GMT

Volkmar!
Thank you! It worked great!
Geetha.