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Re: XFree86 in Woody on sun4c.



On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 10:12:09AM -0800, peter_easthope@gulfnet.sd64.bc.ca wrote:
> Yesterday I installed XFree86 in Woody on a sun4c.
> Xserver configuration was with debconf.
> 
> "startx xpdf" fails with these error messages 
> among the many lines of XFree86.0.log.
> 
> (EE) No OS PCI support available
>   ...
> (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice
> 	No such device.
> (EE) Generic Mouse: cannot open input device
> (EE) PreInit failed for input device "Generic Mouse"
> 
> Mouse configuration certainly appears to be the 
> culprit.  Can anyone suggest a repair?  
> 

dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 and select the appropriate mouse type.
Likely you will want the gpm repeater, so make sure you configure gpm
correctly.

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