Re: serious problem, plz help

[Kent West <westk@nicanor.acu.edu>]

chetan mittal wrote:

> hi !
>
> I have a serious problem ... i installed Debian Linux on IBM PC 300PL
> having Intel PII 350 Mhz. Whole installation went Ok and i reached at
> Login without any problem. But when i started X-server , it reports
> Fatal Server Error, mouse driver not found but during installation
> driver was /dev/mouse.


/dev/mouse is usually a symlink to the actual mouse device (like 
/dev/psaux or /dev/ttyS0). If this symlink doesn't exist or is pointing 
to an invalid device, you'll get this error.

I personally don't like using a /dev/mouse symlink. I'd rather tell 
XF86Config specifically what device to use.

So you basically have two choices:
 1) ln -s /dev/psaux /dev/mouse
to create a symbolic link to /dev/psaux

 2) edit /etc/X11/XF86Config[-4] and modify the /dev/mouse line to 
point to the correct device (/dev/psaux for the PS2 port, or /dev/ttyS0 
for the COM1 serial port, or /dev/gpmdata if you're using the console 
mouse driver gpm and it's repeating the data to X)

Kent