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Re: X can't find the mouse!



At 09:30 PM 8/17/2000 -0700, Trevor Ramoutar wrote:
>So I installed Debian 2.2.  Everything went well but after the installation 
>I'm at the prompt and I type in startx and I get:
>
>Fatal Server Error:
>Cannot open mouse (no such file or directory)
>
>and I don't know what to do!  Help!

for a ps2 mouse you need to have /dev/psaux when you run XF86config

if you have "interesting" IRQ's it can mess with this...
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