Re: X!

[Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>]

On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 05:06:27PM +0100, Dario Rossi wrote:
> Hello all!
> I am using an Ultra5 with woody installed on it...
> Lately, when the last update installed Xfree 4.0.1, i wasn't able to start
> again the X server.
> The problem should be, as they say at Xfree.org, in mouse protocol
> config.
> Actually i have this configuration:
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier      "Generic Mouse"
>         Driver          "mouse"
>         Option         "CorePointer"
>         Option          "Protocol"              "PS/2"
>         Option          "Device"                "/dev/sunmouse"

Sun mouse type is "BUS".

> Well the system keeps hanging when i start the server, and there's no way
> to stop the process, but cutting power down (SIGH).

That's a problem in the current ati drivers. If you check the list
archives for debian-sparc, you'll see that problem was noted before XF4
was uploaded for sparc.

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