I can't get X to run on my new woody installation (installed from the net
using the isolinux method). The base installation went well. I've tried
several times to generate an XF86Config-4 file --but none of them work (I
used XFree86 -configure, and also the ?debconf method). When I run startx,
it ends with an error message: "cannot open device /dev/input/mice No such
device".
/dev/input/mice seems to exist, however. My keyboard and mouse are both usb.
The mouse is a HP wheel mouse with a left and right button and the wheel.
Both the mouse and keyboard were working perfectly under Mandrake 8.2, which
I have unfortunately nuked to install Debian (I know I should have looked
carefully at my XF86Config-4 file under Mandrake...) The keyboard works fine
with the console (don't know about under X, haven't gotten that far yet...).
I copied a usb mouse config section from an XF86Config-4 file that someone
kindly posted to this group in the past -- it also didn't work with the
same error message. Here is the relevant section:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Any ideas or suggestions? I installed the 2.4 kernel with woody, hoping it
would have more mature usb handling capacity. Do I need to link or configure
/dev/input/mice somehow, or is this a red herring? Thanks for any help, as
I am stuck!! I even had to boot into XP to send this...