Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (594 mails)

[Jon Cosby <jon@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 14:14 -0300, Marco Calistri wrote:
> Il giorno ven, 11/09/2009 alle 13.51 +0200, Michal Seben ha scritto:
> > Marco Calistri wrote:
> > > -------- Original Message  --------
> > > Subject: Re: [opensuse-factory] M7 lacks mouse acquiring on VirtualBox
> > > From: Tejas Guruswamy <masterpatricko@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > To: opensuse-factory@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Date: 10/09/2009 18.40
> > >
> > >   
> > > > Marco Calistri wrote:
> > > >     
> > > > > Hi List,
> > > > >
> > > > > I Updated and D-Updated (zypper up; zypper dup) M6 to M7
> > > > > (my 11.2 is a virtual guest system) then mouse control disappeared: the
> > > > > pointer stays freezed on the centre of ggreter.
> > > > >
> > > > > I tried both booting by marking and un-marking "ACPI" and "IO-ACPI" on
> > > > > Sun VirtualBox settings, as well as booting 11.2 from default or
> > > > > failsafe without any difference.
> > > > >
> > > > > Any suggestions?
> > > > >
> > > > > TKS,
> > > > >   
> > > > >       
> > > > Do you mean that the mouse pointer is unresponsive even if you click in
> > > > the VM window or just that the guest additions mouse integration is no
> > > > longer working?
> > > > If it is just the failure of the guest additions, I have found that (in
> > > > M7, and possibly in previous versions) the virtualbox-ose package is
> > > > missing the necessary hal policy files to autodetect the virtualbox
> > > > mouse; I am working on a submitreq for it.
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > >
> > > > Tejas
> > > >     
> > >
> > > Hi Tejas,
> > >
> > > I mean the first of your comment: mouse pointer is unresponsive, so that
> > > I am unable even to login.
> > >
> > > I also tried to use remote desktop function of VirtualBox (I am using
> > > the Sun latest version by the way), thinking it could be the solution,
> > > but again the pointer remains unresponsive.
> > >
> > > Currently I am downloading M7 DVD, to see if I can repair the 
> > > installation.
> > >
> > > BR,
> > >
> > > Marco
> > >
> > >   
> > hm ..  keyboard works ? if yes, go to console : ctrl+F1 and check less
> > /var/log/Xorg.0.log
>
> I could not verify if keyboard works, since the problem is blocking the
> access from the very start (login to desktop environment).
>
> I've seen some errors on Xorg.0.log, related to Option "AutoAddDevices",
> so I investigated further, but all the attempts were in vain, at least
> on the "VirtualBox WinXP" host configuration.
>
> But same VirtualBox configuration is working well on this linux machine
> which is the host system of "11.2 Milestone 7 guest".
>
> So at begin, I suspect some problems related to Windows driver problem,
> by the fact that VirtualBox drivers are not Microsoft certified and they
> went installed by forcing the installation.

I'm not exactly clear, is it just 11.2 that's failing, or is it all
guests? I had the same problem in M6 resulting from the HAL daemon not
starting. Why it wasn't starting wasn't resolved, but updating the HAL
package took care of it. Try booting to runlevel 3 and check to see if
this is the case (ps ax | grep hal). To boot into runlevel 3, enter "3"
in the boot options in the boot menu.


Jon


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