IBM RSA II in RedHat 9: remote control doesn't work

From: Donald Li (forever_connected_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 05/28/04


Date: 28 May 2004 08:47:41 -0700

RSA II was installed on IBM's xSeries 335 server which has a USB
keyboard and a USB mouse. It also has PS/2 keyboard and PS/2 mouse
via IBM's CCT chain. The OS is RedHat 9 with kernel 2.4.25
recompiled. I've been struggling to get the remote control
function to work.

In this function, if I log on to RSA from my laptop, I'm supposed
to be able to use mouse and keyboard on laptop to control the x335
server. However, the keyboard seems to work fine but not the mouse.
This is likely to be caused by incorrect X configuration (thanks
to IBM's confusing technical pamphlet). Here is my XF86Config.
Hope some experienced user(s) can point out where was wrong. Another
possibility is some missing kernel option.

===========================/etc/X11/XF86Config Starts here
Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier "Layout[all]"
        Screen 0 "Screen[0]" 0 0
        InputDevice "Keyboard[0]" "CoreKeyboard"
        InputDevice "USB Mouse" "CorePointer"
        InputDevice "Mouse[1]" "SendCoreEvents"
        InputDevice "DevInputMice" "AlwaysCore"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen[0]"
        Device "Videocard0"
        Monitor "Monitor0"
        DefaultDepth 16
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth 16
                Modes "1024x768"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier "Videocard0"
        Driver "vesa"
        VendorName "Videocard vendor"
        BoardName "ATI Radeon 7000"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier "Monitor0"
        VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
        ModelName "Optiquest V95"
        DisplaySize 370 280
        HorizSync 30.0 - 95.0
        VertRefresh 50.0 - 150.0
        Option "off"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier "Keyboard[0]"
        Driver "keyboard"
        Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
        Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
        Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier "USB Mouse"
        Driver "mouse"
        Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
        Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier "Mouse[1]"
        Driver "mouse"
        Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
        Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
        Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier "DevInputMice"
        Driver "mouse"
        Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
        Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
EndSection

Section "Files"
        RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
        FontPath "unix/:7100"
EndSection

Section "Module"
        Load "dbe"
        Load "extmod"
        Load "fbdevhw"
        Load "glx"
        Load "record"
        Load "freetype"
        Load "type1"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
        Group 0
        Mode 0666
EndSection

===========================================
Donald Li
i3ARCHIVE, Inc.
1205 Westlakes Drive, Suite 190
Berwyn, PA 19312



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