[Fedora-xen] Re: FC7 MOUSE PROBLEMS
miguel
rmigh at hotmail.com
Tue Sep 18 18:05:15 UTC 2007
Thanks for submitting the bug report. I reported this problem over 4 months
ago, but I never created a bug for it. This problem occurred on 3 different
DELL systems I was working with ( 2 laptops and 1 desktop). I'll try your
workaround to see If it works on my systems.
Thanks
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> 1. Mouse problem with FC7 uptodate, Windows XP virt machine,
> rdesktop connection. (NoisilySilent)
> 2. Re: Mouse problem with FC7 uptodate, Windows XP virt machine,
> rdesktop connection. (Eduardo Habkost)
> 3. RE: Mouse problem with FC7 uptodate, Windows XP virt machine,
> rdesktop connection. (NoisilySilent)
> 4. Re: Mouse problem with FC7 uptodate, Windows XP virt machine,
> rdesktop connection. (Eduardo Pereira Habkost)
> 5. Re: Mouse problem with FC7 uptodate, Windows XP virt machine,
> rdesktop connection. (Eduardo Pereira Habkost)
> 6. Re: SET failed on device eth0 ; No such device (Jordi Prats)
> 7. Hide the host (mathieu rohon)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 18:16:49 +0200
> From: "NoisilySilent" <noisilysilent at nerdshack.com>
> Subject: [Fedora-xen] Mouse problem with FC7 uptodate, Windows XP virt
> machine, rdesktop connection.
> To: <fedora-xen at redhat.com>
> Message-ID: <000301c7f946$27c02800$cdda0259 at 2M9MV1J>
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> Hi,
>
>
>
> I used to run Windows XP inside a XEN virtual machine on FC6.
>
> Everything was perfect.
>
> To connect to the Windows XP virtual machine, I used to run rdesktop.
>
>
>
> Today I installed FC7 from scratch and tried to use my Windows XP virtual
> machine and I noticed a very strange behaviour:
>
>
>
> All of this stuff runs on a Dell Latitude D620 laptop.
>
> This laptop offers a touchpad, a trackpoint and of course USB ports on
> which
> I connect a 3 button wheel mice.
>
> FC7 is up to date and all packages are at last date version, including
> XEN.
>
> Now when I connect to the Windows XP virtual machine via rdesktop, after a
> few minutes the trackpoint and the mouse get weird: when using either the
> trackpoint or the mouse moving rightwards, the pointer gets "stuck" on the
> left border of the screen whereas I can still use the touchpad and things
> don't get messed up.
>
> However, when using FC7 without XEN, I don't encounter this trouble.
>
> Have you ever heard of such a problem?
>
>
>
> Cheers
>
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> Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 14:50:02 -0300
> From: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: [Fedora-xen] Mouse problem with FC7 uptodate, Windows XP
> virt machine, rdesktop connection.
> To: NoisilySilent <noisilysilent at nerdshack.com>
> Cc: fedora-xen at redhat.com
> Message-ID: <20070917175002.GA7163 at blackpad.ctb.virtua.com.br>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 06:16:49PM +0200, NoisilySilent wrote:
> <snip>
>>
>> Now when I connect to the Windows XP virtual machine via rdesktop, after
>> a
>> few minutes the trackpoint and the mouse get weird: when using either the
>> trackpoint or the mouse moving rightwards, the pointer gets "stuck" on
>> the
>> left border of the screen whereas I can still use the touchpad and things
>> don't get messed up.
>>
>> However, when using FC7 without XEN, I don't encounter this trouble.
>>
>> Have you ever heard of such a problem?
>
> I had this weird cursor behaviour last week, on Fedora 7. I was running
> a Xen kernel, also (2.6.20-2931, probably; but it could be a different
> version).
>
> If I recall correctly, I didn't have any guest running at the time. It
> happened when I started an Eclipse-based application[1]. The cursor
> could be moved to the right, but only if I moved the mouse very slowly.
>
> On my case, it was a desktop machine, so I didn't have a touchpad,
> just an USB mouse.
>
>
> However, I didn't manage to reproduce the problem today. Is it easily
> reproducible, on your case?
>
>
> [1] It was a IDE from QNX I had just installed for testing.
>
> --
> Eduardo
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 20:15:35 +0200
> From: "NoisilySilent" <noisilysilent at nerdshack.com>
> Subject: RE: [Fedora-xen] Mouse problem with FC7 uptodate, Windows XP
> virt machine, rdesktop connection.
> To: <fedora-xen at redhat.com>
> Message-ID: <000f01c7f956$bef8f980$cdda0259 at 2M9MV1J>
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>
> Hey, this is EXACTLY the same behavior!!!
>
> Actually I think we are facing the same problem.
> I can move it to the right slowly too.
> This sounds really similar.
>
> Unfortunately, in my situation it is reproducible as it happens every time
> :(
> In fact, nothing runs within the host FC7 except Xorg.
> I thought it might have been a window manager problem as bonobo doesn't
> start anymore when xen is launched... so I shifted from Gnome to XFCE but
> this didn't change anything.
> So, apart from Xorg and rdesktop, nothing runs in FC7, everything runs
> within the hosted Win XP.
>
> What bugs me most is that it doesn't appear when launching anything in
> particular: I'm simply quietly working in my Windows session and all in a
> sudden, the pointer gets stuck in the left.
> Well, this is not that dramatically annoying as I can still use the
> touchpad, but still it's frustrating: I'm the mouse type, not the touchpad
> one ;-)
>
>
>
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Eduardo Habkost [mailto:ehabkost at redhat.com]
> Envoyé : lundi 17 septembre 2007 19:50
> À : NoisilySilent
> Cc : fedora-xen at redhat.com
> Objet : Re: [Fedora-xen] Mouse problem with FC7 uptodate, Windows XP virt
> machine, rdesktop connection.
>
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 06:16:49PM +0200, NoisilySilent wrote:
> <snip>
>>
>> Now when I connect to the Windows XP virtual machine via rdesktop, after
>> a
>> few minutes the trackpoint and the mouse get weird: when using either the
>> trackpoint or the mouse moving rightwards, the pointer gets "stuck" on
>> the
>> left border of the screen whereas I can still use the touchpad and things
>> don't get messed up.
>>
>> However, when using FC7 without XEN, I don't encounter this trouble.
>>
>> Have you ever heard of such a problem?
>
> I had this weird cursor behaviour last week, on Fedora 7. I was running
> a Xen kernel, also (2.6.20-2931, probably; but it could be a different
> version).
>
> If I recall correctly, I didn't have any guest running at the time. It
> happened when I started an Eclipse-based application[1]. The cursor
> could be moved to the right, but only if I moved the mouse very slowly.
>
> On my case, it was a desktop machine, so I didn't have a touchpad,
> just an USB mouse.
>
>
> However, I didn't manage to reproduce the problem today. Is it easily
> reproducible, on your case?
>
>
> [1] It was a IDE from QNX I had just installed for testing.
>
> --
> Eduardo
>
>
>
>
>
>
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>
> Message: 4
> Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:01:45 -0300
> From: Eduardo Pereira Habkost <ehabkost at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: [Fedora-xen] Mouse problem with FC7 uptodate, Windows XP
> virt machine, rdesktop connection.
> To: NoisilySilent <noisilysilent at nerdshack.com>
> Cc: fedora-xen at redhat.com
> Message-ID: <20070917190145.GC7163 at blackpad.ctb.virtua.com.br>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 08:13:23PM +0200, NoisilySilent wrote:
>> Hey, this is EXACTLY the same behavior!!!
>>
>> Actually I think we are facing the same problem.
>> I can move it to the right slowly too.
>> This sounds really similar.
>>
>> Unfortunately, in my situation it is reproducible as it happens every
>> time
>> :(
>
> I have managed to reproduce it without using the Eclipse-based
> application.
>
> I simply create a new full-virtualization guest (using virt-install)
> while moving heavily the mouse cursor. It will eventually get stuck in
> the left side of the display, when the vncviewer Window is shown.
>
> Restarting the X server solves the problem most of times, but I managed
> to get the cursor stuck on the left if I move the mouse heavily while
> the X server is restarting.
>
> I have found a workaround, also:
>
> 'xset m 1/1 1000' (in practice it will disable the mouse acceleration
> by setting a huge threshold) make the cursor behave properly. Enabling
> mouse acceleration again gets the cursor stuck again. This makes me
> believe that this is a Xorg bug, but that may be triggered more easily
> when running Xen.
>
> --
> Eduardo
>
>
>
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>
> Message: 5
> Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 18:39:02 -0300
> From: Eduardo Pereira Habkost <ehabkost at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: [Fedora-xen] Mouse problem with FC7 uptodate, Windows XP
> virt machine, rdesktop connection.
> To: NoisilySilent <noisilysilent at nerdshack.com>
> Cc: fedora-xen at redhat.com
> Message-ID: <20070917213902.GD7163 at blackpad.ctb.virtua.com.br>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 04:01:45PM -0300, Eduardo Pereira Habkost wrote:
> <snip>
>>
>> I have managed to reproduce it without using the Eclipse-based
>> application.
>>
>> I simply create a new full-virtualization guest (using virt-install)
>> while moving heavily the mouse cursor. It will eventually get stuck in
>> the left side of the display, when the vncviewer Window is shown.
>
> I have opened a bug for this:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=294011
>
> --
> Eduardo
>
>
>
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>
> Message: 6
> Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:44:44 +0200
> From: Jordi Prats <jprats at cesca.es>
> Subject: Re: [Fedora-xen] SET failed on device eth0 ; No such device
> To: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost at redhat.com>
> Cc: fedora-xen at redhat.com
> Message-ID: <46EF9E0C.6020409 at cesca.es>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
> Hi,
> I suspect it's something related to use multiple network devices. I have
> this script to setup two bridges, if I disable it all works fine. Anyone?
>
> Thank you !
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> #JPC - per crear les dues interficies - 2006 12 22
>
> dir=$(dirname "$0")
> . "$dir/xen-script-common.sh"
> . "$dir/xen-network-common.sh"
>
> findCommand "$@"
>
> case "$command" in
> start)
> vifnum=0 bridge=servei netdev=eth0
> /etc/xen/scripts/network-bridge start
> vifnum=1 bridge=dades netdev=eth1
> /etc/xen/scripts/network-bridge start
> ;;
>
> stop)
> vifnum=0 bridge=servei netdev=eth0
> /etc/xen/scripts/network-bridge stop
> vifnum=1 bridge=dades netdev=eth1
> /etc/xen/scripts/network-bridge stop
> ;;
>
> status)
> vifnum=0 bridge=servei netdev=eth0
> /etc/xen/scripts/network-bridge status
> vifnum=1 bridge=dades netdev=eth1
> /etc/xen/scripts/network-bridge status
> ;;
>
> *)
> echo "Unknown command: $command" >&2
> echo 'Valid commands are: start, stop, status' >&2
> exit 1
> esac
>
>
> Eduardo Habkost wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 11:43:04AM +0200, Jordi Prats wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>> I'm getting this error while trying to bring up my eth1 (is not a
>>> wireless card, is a Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 Gigabit Ethernet)
>>>
>>> Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
>>> SET failed on device eth1 : No such device.
>>> SIOCGFFLAGS: No such device
>>> Failed to bring up eth1.
>>>
>>
>> By looking at the ifup scripts, it seems that the real problem is
>> why iwconfig is reporting "No such device" instead of "no wireless
>> extensions". Is eth1 appearing on 'ip link show' and 'ifconfig -a'
>> output?
>>
>> Is it a xen bridge set up by the Xen scripts, or a normal network
>> interface?
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> ......................................................................
> __
> / / Jordi Prats
> C E / S / C A Dept. de Sistemes
> /_/ Centre de Supercomputació de Catalunya
>
> Gran Capità, 2-4 (Edifici Nexus) · 08034 Barcelona
> T. 93 205 6464 · F. 93 205 6979 · jprats at cesca.es
> ......................................................................
>
>
>
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>
> Message: 7
> Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:03:42 +0200
> From: "mathieu rohon" <nooroon at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Fedora-xen] Hide the host
> To: fedora-xen at redhat.com
> Message-ID:
> <7675761b0709180803p353f7464l732e7577ac20ecc1 at mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'd like to use xen with fedora as host, and several OSes as guest (in
> fact
> 2).
> The aim is to use the host as a router for the guests.
> So i'd like to make the host as thin as possible, in order to provide most
> power to the guest. Do you know a smart way to do so?
>
> I'd also like to hide the host from the user. When the user log in the
> host, a script is launched, and the appropriated guest start in full
> screen.
> Does anyone has already done something similar?
>
> thanks for all.
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