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Re: Newbie questions



At 04:59 PM 10/7/1998 +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
>>More questions from the guy who thought he had everything figured out.
>>
>>1. X will not boot. It almost does, but it just exits with the error
>>"mouse: fd: Invalid argument" or something like that. Fine, I'll go and
>>reconfigure. But how? How can I run the X configure program again? (You
>>know, the one that tells you to select your video card etc.)

Instead of re-running xf86config or XF86Setup, you might just use an editor
(vi, ae, emacs, etc) to look at the /etc/X11/XF86Config file in the Mouse
section. You might immediately see what's causing the problem (trash on the
line, a bad parameter, etc). If not, then you can rerun the setup.

Kent

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