Re: no X after installing msttcorefonts

[Andrew Hurt <andydotrewsix@version.net>]

praveen kallakuri wrote:
> hello
>
> i tried this on debian laptops but dint get any useful responses.
> hopefully someone here can help me.
>
> here's my setup; woody -- 2.4.17 customized for acpi - gnome2 - gdm2
>
> i recently upgraded to gnome2 and things were fine except that my fonts
> were smudgy. the font-HOWTO i was reading mentioned that certain apps
> like netscape can do better rendering if they can access microsoft font
> package. thats what i did. i found out from somewhere that the font
> package was called msttcorefonts and installed it with apt-get. debian
> configurator lead me through installing various msft fonts and then i
> restarted xfs and gdm. thats when i the problem started. i no longer
> have a display! :(
>
> looking at the log files dint help much. maybe someone can read between
> the lines. am including the entire content on these links:
>
>     http://csce.unl.edu/~pkallaku/pub/general/XFree86.0.log

(**) Generic Mouse: Protocol: "ImPS/2"
(**) Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
(**) Generic Mouse: always reports core events
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
(EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice
	No such device.
(EE) Generic Mouse: cannot open input device
(EE) PreInit failed for input device "Generic Mouse"
(II) UnloadModule: "mouse"
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Configured Mouse" (type: MOUSE)

That's your problem-you don't have '/dev/input/mice'.

You have two mice?

Try 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86'ing the Generic Mouse out (keep the 
Configured Mouse) and see what happens.

>     http://csce.unl.edu/~pkallaku/pub/general/XF86Config-4
>
> looking anxiously for someone to help me.
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ah