On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 02:12:08PM -0500, Paul T. McNally wrote: > I did a reinstall. The first time I installed potato, the mouse was > all fd up, it sticks to the bottom of the screen and refuses to > com up. I can see the tip of the pointer on the bottom edge of the > screen. When that happened, I ran XF86Setup and changed > a couple settings on the mouse and I think the meer using XF86Setup > set the mouse right. Honestly I don't think it matttered what I > picked in XF86Setup, as long as I was not too far off based. I've seen this type of mouse behavior before when gdm(?) is being run. If you check the archives just a couple weeks ago you will see a fair amount of usefull fixes for this situation. > > Now I'm a bit frustrated because XF86Setup won't even come up. > I can manipulate the window menu system with key combinations > from the keyboard, but when I choose XF86Setup, the hard drive grinds > a little bit and then nothing. I started XF86Setup from the command line > and I get "X11TransSocket UNIX Conect:can't connect: errno=111" > > and I get the message "unable to communicate with X server" > > I'm using the svga X Server for my card. Maybe you need to run XF86Setup as root? > > The other really frustrating thing is when I bring up windows in XWindows, > the > top 1/4 to 1/3 of the window is above the top of my screen. > > I have not found anything to remedy this. > > Again, on the first install, I was able to run XF86Setup and it fixed this > crap. Any help would be appreciated. > > Paul > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe debian-user-request@lists.debian.org < /dev/null >
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