Re: X Won't Start
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 07:44:14 -0600, Kent West wrote:
>Mark Healey wrote:
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>>On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 21:13:24 -0600, Kent West wrote:
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>>>>>Mark Healey wrote:
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>>>>>>My X won't work with the default installation.
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><snippage here and elsewhere>
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>>>>>>Someone Suggested that I boot knoppix and copy /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 from
there to my hd and reboot. I did that. X started but with no
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>>>>>>mouse movement. Just a cursor.
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>>>Get out of X11 to a plain text screen.
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>>Since X won't start that isn't a problem.
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>>>Move the mouse. Do you see a white cursor block moving around on the screen?
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>>No.
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>>>If you do, then you have gpm installed/running. If not, then no gpm.
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>>Appearantly I have no gpm. I was surprised when I had no text mode
>>mouse but figured that it was something I could use.
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>>Is this somethihg I might be able to install?
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>Yes. "apt-get install gpm".
Did that, still no cursor.
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