Re: Dell 8600 gdm startup problem

[Wendy Leigh Vandoolaeghe <wlv21@hermes.cam.ac.uk>]

Thanks, adding psmouse to /etc/modules seems to work.:)

On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Frans Pop wrote:

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> On Monday 20 September 2004 22:21, Wendy Leigh Vandoolaeghe wrote:
> > Sorry...
> >
> > the last bit of the /var/log/XFree86.0.log says the following:
> >
> > (**) Configured Mouse: Protocol:"ImPS/2"
> > (**) Option "CorePointer"
> > (**) Configured MOuse: Core Pointer
> > (**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
> > (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice No such device
> > (EE) Configured Mouse: cannot open input device
> > (EE) PreInit failed for input device "Configured Mouse"
> > (II) UnloadModule: "mouse"
> > (WW) No core pointer registered
> > (II) Server_Terminate keybinding not found
> >       No core pointer
> >
> > fatal server error: failed to initialize core devices
>
> Check this bugreport. Maybe that's your problem. It also has a workaround.
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=255744
>
> Cheers,
> FJP
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