Re: cant start X

[Steve Bowman <sbowman@frostwork.net>]

On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 09:01:39AM -0400, Alejandro Arrieta wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have just make my 3 CD set of Debian 2.2 with the pseudo-package tools,
> and installed Debian in my Ultra 1 clone. I have installed the packages to
> run X, but it doesnt comes up. 
> My frame buffer is a CG6 (TGX).
> 
> 
> The error that i get is:
> 
> sunMouseProc ioctl VUIDGFORMAT: Invalid argument
> 
> Fatal server error:
> failed to initialize core devices

Ben's answer to another user is the standard reply for this error for
X on sparc:

On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 01:24:01PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 04:40:53PM +0200, Andreas Larsson wrote:
> > 
> > > where is /dev/mouse pointing to ?
> > > 
> > 
> > /dev/sunmouse  (was /dev/gpmdata but i changed it, the result was the
> > same however..)
> 
> rm -f /dev/gpmdata

Is this in Installation Instructions or Release Notes somewhere?
Can we get this inode removed from the sparc image build?  Am cc'ing
d-boot and d-doc.

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