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Re: X probs.



On Tue, Sep 21, 1999 at 06:40:59PM -0500, William Froning wrote:
> I've installed X on my SS5, but anytime I try o run it i get
> 
> Fatal server error:
> Cannot open /dev/mouse, error 2
> 
> and that's it...obviously i didn't get my mouse put in the kernel correctly 
> or something along those lines.  What can i do to fix the problem?  And 
> also how do i determine which audio to add in the kernel?  If i have to 
> compile a new kernel where is the mouse option?

That's probably a known bug.

You've got to link /dev/mouse to /dev/sunmouse.

$ cd /dev
$ ln -s sunmouse mouse

Greetings,



				Christian
-- 
Christian Meder, email: meder@isr.uni-stuttgart.de
 
What's the railroad to me ?
I never go to see
Where it ends.
It fills a few hollows,
And makes banks for the swallows, 
It sets the sand a-blowing,
And the blackberries a-growing.
                      (Henry David Thoreau)
 


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