on Sun, May 13, 2001 at 05:34:32PM -0500, James Jackson (jjackson329@msn.com) wrote: > I recently purchased a copy of Debian linux and installed it on my computer. After installing I tryed "startX and ended up with this error: > System: '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp -w 1 -R/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb -xkm -m us -em1 "The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:" -emp "> " -eml "Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server" keymap/xfree86 /var/tmp/xfree86.xkm' > > Fatal server error: > Cannot open mouse (No such file or directory) > > When I did xf86config, I used the default for the mouse(/dev/mouse) but when I use mc to find it, it's not there. > > Also when I go to XF86Setup, the system locks up when I go to the > mouse screen. > > Can you please help? /dev/mouse doesn't exist by default, it's a symlink to the actual mouse device, very often /dev/psaux if you're using a PS/2 style mouse. If you're using gpm, you'll want to use /dev/gpmdata instead. Try both above or see list archives -- this problem's been discussed frequently in the recent past. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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