Re: help with x server
Thanks Anish,
I checked that and apparantly neither are installed.
How do I go about getting them ? Do I need to use deselect ?
Thanks again.
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Anish Muttreja wrote:
> Might be a missing module.
> Do $lsmod and see if it reports the modules hid or usbmouse.
> Otherwise do
> $modprobe usbmouse
> or $modprobe hid
> Only one should be required.
>
> anish
>
> On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 15:22, Ashish L Samant ;011;icsg6; wrote:
> > Hi....
> >
> > I am having trouble using my mouse and keyboard with kdm/gdm. No input
> > from two is recognized and now I cant even get kdm/gdm to start when I
> > type startx. Im using woody with kernel 2.2.20 , nvidia geforce2 mx 400 video
> > card, logitech wheel USB mouse (2 buttons and the scroller ).
> >
> > Here are parts of the error from the log file and also parts from my
> > xf86config-4 file. Im not sure if I need to paste the entire files here.
> >
> > please advise. thanks
> >
> >
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------------------
> > (II) Keyboard "Generic Keyboard" handled by legacy driver
> > (**) USB Mice: Protocol: "IMPS/2"
> > (**) USB Mice: CorePOinter
> > (EE) xF86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice
> > No such device
> > (EE) USB Mice: cannot open input device
> > (EE) PreInit failed for input device "USB Mice"
> > (WW) NO core pointer registered
> > No core pointer
> >
> > Fatal Server error:
> > failed to initialize core devices
> >
> > -------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Section "Files"
> > FontPath "unix/:7100" #local font server
> > #if local font server has problems we can fall back on these
> > FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
> > FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
> > FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
> > FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
> > FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
> > FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
> > FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
> > EndSection
> >
> > Section "Module"
> > Load "GLcore"
> > Load "bitmap"
> > Load "dbe"
> > Load "ddc"
> > Load "dri"
> > Load "extmod"
> > Load "freetype"
> > Load "glx"
> > Load "int10"
> > Load "pex5"
> > Load "record"
> > Load "speedo"
> > Load "type1"
> > Load "vbe"
> > Load "xie"
> > EndSection
> >
> > Section "InputDevice"
> > Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
> > Driver "keyboard"
> > Option "CorekeyBoard"
> > Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
> > Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
> > Option "Xkblayout" "us"
> > EndSection
> >
> > #Section "InputDevice"
> > # Identifier "Configured Mouse"
> > # Driver "mouse"
> > # Option "CorePointer"
> > # Option "Device" "/dev/atibm"
> > # Option "Protocol" "BusMouse"
> > #EndSection
> >
> > #Section "InputDevice"
> > # Identifier "Generic Mouse"
> > # Driver "mouse"
> > # Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
> > # Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
> > # Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
> > #EndSection
> >
> > Section "InputDevice"
> > Identifier "USB Mice"
> > Driver "mouse"
> > Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
> > Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
> > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> > Option "Buttons" "5"
> > EndSection
> >
> > Section ServerLayout
> > Identifier "Default layout"
> > Screen "Default Screen"
> > InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
> > # InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
> > # InputDevice "Generic Mouse"
> > InputDevice "USB Mice" "CorePointer"
> > EndSection
> >
>
>
Graduate Student
Dept of Computer Science
Rochester Institute of Technology
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