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Re: To reinstall or not...



Harold Hartley wrote:
> I keep reading about the new bootfloppies for sparc to fix the problem I
> have on mine now....
> I have a sparc 1+ and as root, I can start Xwindow, but not as a regular
> logon...
> I had to go in and fix the route for gpm to find my mouse....
> it can't seem to detect my serial ports under autoconfigure for it when I
> first installed linux...
> should I reinstall or what when the new bootfloppies are ready....
> I'm a new linux user and just don't know what files are where to fix this
> stuff...

Just change the perms of /dev/fb0 to -rw-rw-rw- (chmod 666 /dev/fb0) for Xwindow
to work and create a symlink from /dev/mouse to /dev/sunmouse
(ln -s sunmouse /dev/mouse).

Hope this help.

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 delaunay@lix.polytechnique.fr | En les supprimant." Henri Jeanson (1900-1970)


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