[CentOS] CentOS 4.5 - ProLiant DL585 G2 - Mouse Issue

Johnny Hughes johnny at centos.org
Tue Dec 4 11:37:08 UTC 2007


Tom Brown wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> OK another issue trying to get X going on these boxes. It seems to be a
> HP issue but if anyone knows a solution that would be great.
> I am using the iLo interface and the hpmouse-1.1.0-73.noarch.rpm driver.
> As root i can startx and all is well, however when starting X as the
> oracle user it fails with the following error
> 
> Exec fail for command "/opt/hp/hpmouse/hpmouse-helper" Permission Denied
> 
> This is indeed only accessible by root it seems so does anyone know how
> non root users are supposed to use the mouse on HP boxes?
> 
> thanks

I do not know what that is or does ... but if the problem is permissions
... why not do this for testing:

chmod o+rx /opt/hp
chmod o+rx /opt/hp/hpmouse
chmod o+rx /opt/hp/hpmouse/hpmouse-helper

That should allow access from everyone if it is a simple permissions
only issue.

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