Re: X Fall Down Go Boom
At 18:49 Uhr -0400 18.04.2002, matthew frederick davis h. wrote:
Hello List.
Okay -- I have managed to get an old world machine to boot directly into
Debian with quik. Yes, I did manage to find a mouse mode that made my mouse
move around the screen (imps2)...
But now: X won't start up at all. The screen goes grey for a moment and
then kicks me back to the prompt, giving me the now familiar whine "Fatal
server error: Cannot open mouse (Is a directory)".
I've configured gpm to use /dev/input/mice as my driver. I can also
make my mouse move with /dev/input/mouse0 (though X still won't start), but
none of the other drivers works for my single-button ADB mouse.
It's probably much too late, but: it's not enough to configure gpm,
gpm runs independantly from X. You *can* set up gpm to repeat the
input to a fifo file like /dev/gpmdata and let X pick it up from
there, but the better method is to configure X (/etc/X11/XF86Config-4
(XFree4, excerpt shown below) or /etc/X11/XF86Config) to directly
read mouse data from /dev/input/mice as well (there seems to be no
problem having both gpm and X reading from there at the same time).
(I would upgrade to woody as well, not sure if I ever had mouse/X
running under potato.)
Option Device "/dev/input/mice"
Option Protocol "ImPS/2".
Option ZAxisMapping "4 5"
The last line is so that mouse wheels work.
Chj.
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