[ale] no X?

[Robert L. Harris]

Actually, I found the answer.  It was in the ale list.  I had the same
typo with the quotes in "/etc/X11/Xsession.d/99xfree86-common_start".
I removed the quotes around the $REALSTARTUP and it functions flawlessly
now.



Thus spake Chris Ricker (kaboom at gatech.edu):

> On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Robert L. Harris 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.
> 
> You need a new kernel and support devices.  Since you're apparently on 
> Intel, you probably just need to enable Input Core and then Input 
> Mouse support; on things like Ultrasparcs where the mouse isn't part of the 
> Input core, you have to enable devfs (which should also work on Intel).  
> 
> Once you do that, /dev/input/mice is character 13,63
> 
> later,
> chris
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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