Hello Richard! On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 01:12:12PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote:
Over the years, using various RH and SuSE versions, and again recently under
Debian, I've noticed the list of errors generated by the X-server. Usually,
the screen is full of them when dropping back to command line. I've come to
accept them as normal. But are they? Should I care? It would be nice to
have things run error free, even if only from an A-R sense of neatness.
As an example, I'm going to laboiously copy the current errors from my desktop
machine:
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XFree86 Version 4.3.0 (Debian 4.3.0-0ds4 20030416150820 dstone@aedificator)
Release Date: 18 March 2003
X Protocol version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6
Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.21-pre5 i686 [ELF]
Build date: 16 April 2003
Before reporting problems, check http://www.XFree86.Org/
to make sure that you have the latest version.
[...]
(EE) Generic Mouse: cannot open input device
(EE) PreInit failed for input device "Generic Mouse"
You can just remove or comment the "Generic Mouse" entry in your XF86Config-4, I guess you have another entry and your mouse is actually working.
[...] Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list!
You don't have xfs running / installed, so you can just remove or comment this entry from your fontpath. xfs isn't strictly necessary as X is able to serve locally installed fonts for itself.
Is this all typical and of no consequence or is some or all of it solveable by correct editing of /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 (or better by using a setup tool somewhere)?
Don't know about the rest, sorry. When editing XF86Config-4 make sure your changes are kept over upgrades, see its header about this. HTH, Flo
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