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

Tue Dec 4 11:38:28 UTC 2007
Mogens Kjaer <mk at crc.dk>

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?

Doesn't it work without the high performance mouse driver?

I've never needed any extra mouse driver to be able to use X
under iLO.

Mogens

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