[ale] no X?

keith frost pfrostie at yahoo.com
Tue Oct 16 14:28:08 EDT 2001


i had a similar problem when i upgraded my X.
i had to add some symlinks but then it would not bring
up my window manager.
:-(

--- "Robert L. Harris" <Robert.L.Harris at rdlg.net>
wrote:
> 
> 
> Just upgraded my box to 2.4.12, latest debian Sid. 
> Now when I start X
> it says:
> (**) NV(0): DPMS enabled
> (II) Keyboard "Generic Keyboard" handled by legacy
> driver
> (**) Configured Mouse: Protocol: "PS/2"
> (**) Configured Mouse: Core Pointer
> (==) Configured Mouse: Buttons: 3
> (**) Configured Mouse: Emulate3Buttons,
> Emulate3Timeout: 50
> (**) Generic Mouse: Protocol: "ImPS/2"
> (**) Generic Mouse: always reports core events
> (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device
> /dev/input/mice
>         No such file or directory.
> (EE) Generic Mouse: cannot open input device
> (EE) PreInit failed for input device "Generic Mouse"
> (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device
> "Configured Mouse" (type: MOUSE)
> 
> waiting for X server to shut down
> 
> I've got a standard psaux (ps2) mouse plugged in. 
> When I compiled the 
> kernel that was enabled as always.
> 
> Help?
> 
> 
> :wq!
>
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> FYI:
>  perl -e 'print
>
$i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
> 
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