Spaceball 5000

[Geetha_1]

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.

[Steven E. Protter]

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

[V. Nyga · Accepted solution]

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*

[Geetha_1]

Volkmar!
Thank you! It worked great!
Geetha.