RE: Need Help With Installing X11 and KDE
Kent West wrote:
> Steve Grace wrote:
>> I gave up and reinstalled the base OS again with no additional
>> packages.
>>
>> I then installed and configured kde-core, kdm, and
>> x-windows-system-core (I want to start with a minimal environment and
>> add to it). KDE didn't start automatically so (assuming that I missed
>> something) I installed the entire kde package, which didn't solve the
>> problem. I saw a note somewhere about starting X11 with "xstart"; I
>> tried that and got an error (listed in
>> /var/log/XFree86.0.log):
>>
>> Cannot open device /dev/input/mice
>
> Try "cat /dev/input/mice" and move the mouse around. Any garbage being
> thrown up on the screen? If not, either this device is wrong for your
> trackball, or you're missing a kernel module which provides driver
> support for your trackball.
I tried this and nothing happened, but it did spew garbage using /dev/psaux!
> I would've thought a PS/2 device would show up on /dev/psaux instead
> of /dev/input/mice. I suspect your original install had both the
> /dev/input/mice and /dev/psaux entries in /etc/X11/xorg.conf (or
> XF86Config-4), and you only noticed the non-used "mice" entry,
> whereas your recent install does not have both, only the "mice" entry.
I edited the mouse type in XF86Config-4 and reinstalled kde-core. I've got
KDE now!
Thank you Kent (and Rage Callao, too). I very much appreciate your help.
Steve
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