Re: startx not working, but X does

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Jens Gecius wrote:

> Corey Popelier <pancreas@dingoblue.net.au> writes:
>
>
> > If you just did an upgrade today, then you aren't the only person with the
> > problem. However, I suspect its' actually a KDE related problem that's
> > breaking X. I've now reverted to a X/WindowMaker setup until I see some
> > more KDE updates arrive, and X is running fine.
> >
> > As for the cause of the problem, well I'm not quite sure.
>
> Seems not to be kde related. I'm running gnome here and removed every
> kde package from the system - still not working. X comes up for a
> split second and goes away. It stops exactly where Jeff said:
>
> "(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Generic Mouse"
>
> > > (type: MOUSE)"
> Well, similar message for my trackball. The trackman is working as I
> can move it for exactly the above mentioned split second. I also
> tested if it is something with the nvdriver (nvidia binary), but the
> problem still exists after I changed to the opensource nv.
>
> Any more ideas?
>  

This may or may not be related; yesterday I installed a box and had 
similar moue issues. Turns out that /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 had two mouse 
sections, one for the configured mouse and one for a generic mouse. 
Perhaps this is the way it's supposed to be. Nevertheless, I commented 
out the generic mouse section, and the reference to the generic mouse 
later near the bottom of the XF86Config-4 file, and that fixed my problem.