Re: Still BIG problems with XFree on Dell C400

[Jon Haugsand <jonhaug@ifi.uio.no>]

* Rohan Nicholls
> Sorry, I missed the rest of this thread, but was wondering if I can
> help, as I have a Dell C600 Latitude with X happily humming along.
> 
> Can you send me the thread, or shorten it to what is and what is not
> working? 
> 
> I have just reinstalled debian on my laptop, and had some problems
> with installing the correct packages, so maybe I can shed some light
> on what is going wrong.
> 
> And don't worry other answers will be on list.;)

Thanks.

There was one year ago or something big problems with the Intel 810
chipset on the C400 Latitude.  Problems solved on the RedHat 9, but as
Debian is slow on official updates, I had big problems with installing
debian on my notebook.

Anyway, I downloaded kernel 2.4.20, and recompiled it, and after
several tries, I still have some problems.  E.g. the network is not
found.  (I used to recompile the kernel often in the old days, but I
seem to have lost the touch.)

I also downloaded XFree 4.3.0 and it looks like this worked somewhat.
I am no able to start X by issuing the X command.  But no mouse is
found, from /var/log/XFree86.0.log:

(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"

So I think:

  1. I haven't been able to include proper network configuration when
  recompiling the kernel.

  2. I haven't been able to include proper mouse configuration when
  recompiling the kernel.

  3. I miss xdm, gdm and kdm.  Which one should I choose?

-- 
Jon Haugsand
  Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo, Norway, mailto:jonhaug@ifi.uio.no
  http://www.ifi.uio.no/~jonhaug/, Phone: +47 22 95 21 52