Re: Help with Installation...
Following your advice, I linked /dev/mouse to /dev/psaux. Now X starts up
!! However, I have a new obstacle to clear...
X starts as expected via "startx", but the mouse will NOT respond. I have
run "xf86config" several times, each time choosing a different mouse (to see
if I get lucky with others), but no good. Here's a clue: the last error
message from the X server says:
"Warning: /dev/psaux unable to get status of mouse fd (Inappropriate ioctl
for device)"
Any ideas on how to resolve this one?!?
Thanks again.
-- Daly
-----Original Message-----
From: Eric G . Miller <egm2@jps.net>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Date: Saturday, September 02, 2000 4:28 PM
Subject: Re: Help with Installation...
>On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 04:05:48PM -0700, Gutierrez Family wrote:
>> Thank you for responding !!
>>
>> Quick answers and a few more questions...
>>
>> 1) I installed Debian 2.2 off a 3-CD set. I booted the CD directly after
>> power up. It is supposed to be the "official CD" set, which I bought
from
>> "Discount Linux CDs" (it's mentioned on the Debian.org website). And to
>> answer your other question, the installation DID ask me to change CDs two
>> separate times. One (I believe) was just to see which packages were on
all
>> three CDs, the second time was when it was actually installing the
necessary
>> files on my hard drive (here it asked me for CDs #1 and #2, it never
asked
>> me for #3).
>
>I think #3 is packages in source form. I dunno for sure.
>
>> 2) I could swear that I went through the X configuration during the
install.
>> I remember answering questions about the mouse, sync ranges, resolutions,
>> color, etc. I will take your advice and reconfigure X using "xf86setup",
I
>> have all the data I need. I'll let you know the results...
>
>Sounds like you did then. Did you say yes when xf86config prompted you
>to save the configuration file? Maybe you didn't get something right? X
>is a real pain in the <expletive> to install/configure. It's getting
>better with 4.0 (but that's not widely supported yet).
>
>> 3) You mention running dselect to fix the "broken" packages... I'm new
to
>> Debian and the entire concept of dpkg/dselect/apg-get, etc. I have only
a
>> general understanding. My first question would be, how do I know which
>> packages were the broken ones??? I tried keeping a log of those
messages,
>> but soon realized that the scrolling was faster than I could write.
>
>dpkg -- The general package management tool (all others use it)
>
>apt -- Advanced Package Tool (makes a nice front-end to dpkg,
>especially when updating packages for security fixes, for instance)
>
>dselect -- The older package management interface (can use apt or dpkg).
>It's still pretty useful for scrolling through packages and descriptions
>you might want to install.
>
>To find out the packages that are slated for installation, but aren't
>all the way properly installed, you can try this little one-liner.
>
>$ dpkg -l \* | grep '^i[^i]'
> ^ ^
> | \_ [not] Installed [state]
> \_ Install [desired state]
>
>Sorry that's a bit obtuse, but it should work.
>
>--
>/bin/sh ~/.signature:
>Command not found
>
>
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