[ale] RH5.1 and X

[Darshan Kadam]

>
>>         We just loaded RedHat 5.1 on a Dell m/c at work.  After starting the
>>         X server the monitor displays a blue screen and a cross-haired mouse
>>         pointer in the center.  The mouse doesn't move, nor do any keys work.
>>         It almost seems as though X starts ok but it has some mouse problems.
>>         We have to reboot (use the 'reset' on the m/c) since everything seems 
>>         to be frozen.
>> 
>>         The installation auto-probes all the hardware and detects the video
>>         card which is a S3 Virge, however the Superprobe shows 1M of VRAM 
>>         when the card has 8M.  At least that's what the manual and Window's NT
>>         Diagnostics say.  The monitor is a Dell 17ES monitor.  We installed 
>>         RedHat 5.0 and played around with the different options offered by 
>>         the MetroX server with no success.  The mouse is a PS/2 one.
>>         Can anyone suggest any solutions to this problem?
>
>I have to ask how you are starting up X windows. The standard way is to type
>"startx". This will not only start up the X windows server but a window manager
>as well. It sounds to me like you are typing just "X" which will indeed start
>up the server but not any of the associated environment to make it useful.
>
>Since the autoprobe isn't working, you may have to go in and manually edit the
>configuration file to do what you want. Or reconfigure the X setup and not do
>the autoproblem
>
>hope this helps
>

I started X like I've always started it "startx".  I know there was some
problem in the RH5.0 distribution wherein one had to disable gpm and also
copy the xinitrc and Xclients files in the home directory since that wasn't
done by default.  I don't remember exactly, but the problem was on those lines
where startx would just sit there with no window manager.  The problem I'm
now facing is a bit different.  It finds the window manager alright.  I copied
the xinitrc and Xclients files and edited them to just start Afterstep.
Afterstep comes up with the wharf buttons and all, however the mouse just 
won't budge.  All the various mouse tests and auto*probes come up with the
mouse configuration as a PS/2 mouse mounted on /dev/psaux.  The mouse works
fine on the console, just the X seems to be having problems.  I'm trying some
suggestions emailed to me, to no avail so far. I'll keep on it, please let me
know if you think of something else.

..Darshan