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Re: Newbie with X problems

Craig Morehouse wrote:


Sorry to say, here's another newbie who can't get X started on his woody
box.

Same box runs Mandrake 8.2 just fine, either from the IDE or the SCSI
drive. Woody is on the SCSI drive, vanilla found it, and I've gone
through the configuration from scratch several times. Cannot find
Xserver.

Video card is Nvidia TNT2 Vanta LT 8MB.

I tried using the XF86Config-4 from the Mandrake distro, and it almost
booted, but couldn't find mouse. The Xfree86 configuration came up, and
was a pain to use without mouse, but it saved, then still wouldn't boot
x. Mouse is three button USB.
Both setups use a default color depth of 16. The Mandrake setup uses the plain VGA driver, whereas the Debian setup uses the NVidia (nv) driver with framebuffer. It looks like the Debian setup finds the mouse okay, probably on /dev/input/mice, where most USB mice can be found, although it also looks at the ps/2 port, but since Mandrake doesn't find it there, Debian's probably just skipping over that possibility.
What I'd recommend is to re-run "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86" and this time 'round chose "Generic VGA" (or whatever similar option is available). If that works, you can then start trying to get more performance out of your video card with the nv driver, but at least you'll have made some progress. BTW, it's been ages, but Mandrake's file looks suspiciously like a version 3 file instead of version 4. 

Kent



Woody


Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Configured Mouse"
	Driver		"mouse"
	Option		"CorePointer"
	Option		"Device"		"/dev/psaux"
	Option		"Protocol"		"PS/2"
	Option		"Emulate3Buttons"	"true"
	Option		"ZAxisMapping"		"4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Generic Mouse"
	Driver		"mouse"
	Option		"SendCoreEvents"	"true"
	Option		"Device"		"/dev/input/mice"
	Option		"Protocol"		"ImPS/2"
	Option		"Emulate3Buttons"	"true"
	Option		"ZAxisMapping"		"4 5"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier	"Generic Video Card"
	Driver		"nv"
	Option		"UseFBDev"		"true"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier	"Generic Monitor"
	HorizSync	30-57
	VertRefresh	43-72
	Option		"DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier	"Default Screen"
	Device		"Generic Video Card"
	Monitor		"Generic Monitor"
	DefaultDepth	16


Mandrake


Section "InputDevice"

   Identifier  "Mouse1"
   Driver      "mouse"
   Option "Protocol"    "PS/2"
   Option "Device"      "/dev/mouse"

# ChordMiddle is an option for some 3-button Logitech mice

#    Option "ChordMiddle"

EndSection


# Any number of monitor sections may be present

Section "Monitor"
   Identifier "Sun|Sun 21-inch N3"
   VendorName "Sun"
   ModelName  "Unknown"
   HorizSync  30.0-96.0
   VertRefresh 48.0-160.0
EndSection



# **********************************************************************
# Graphics device section
# **********************************************************************

Section "Device"
   Identifier "Generic VGA"
   Driver     "vga"
EndSection

Section "Device"
   Identifier  "RIVA TNT2"
   VendorName  "Unknown"
   BoardName   "Unknown"
   Driver      "nv"
   Option      "DPMS"  "on"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
   Identifier "screen1"
   Device      "RIVA TNT2"
   Monitor     "Sun|Sun 21-inch N3"
   DefaultColorDepth 16
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