Re: X won't start

["Mark Healey" <deblist@healeyonline.com>]

On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 14:58:01 -0600, Kent West wrote:

>On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 12:19:36AM -0800, Mark Healey wrote:
>> Now that I have the networking fixed and sort of figured out the mouse
>> problem I'm ready to tackle X not starting.
>
>
>Perhaps I missed it, but I never saw what your fix was. Don't leave us
>hanging . . . .
>
>(By posting the solution you might also be helping somoe future aarchive
>searcher.)

For the networking I installed the appropriate kernel headers and
created a symbolic link "linux" to them in the /usr/src since I
couldn't figure out how to merge them with the actual source tree.  I
then just compiled and installed the nic drivers.

The mouse problem is related to my KVM switch.  I bypassed it and gdm
worked fine.  It is worrying that this is a problem since Windows,
Redhat 9 and knoppix have no problem with it.  Somewhere in the chain
between the physical mouse port /dev/psaux some piece of software is
deciding that there is no mouse attached.  I did post this one.

I don't know if you are part of the debian team or not but I'm going
to make a suggestion to you anyway.

It would be nice to have some kind of archive where people, once a
problem is resolved could post a writeup of their solution.  They
could pare out the failed attempts and irrelevant comments.  I'm
already doing it on paper for my own problems.

What would be really neat would to create a sort of evolving
electronic bubble chart type program.  For example:

Problem: no mouse action.

"Do you have a KVM switch? [y/n]"

     A "y" would take the user to

     "Bypass the KVM switch and reboot"
     "Do you now have mouse action? [y/n]"

          A "y" would take you to a congratulations page.
          A "n" would take you to a software diagnostics branch.

     A "n" would take you to a software diagnostics branch.

Of course a real life one would much more elaborate than this.




-----------------------------------------
Please leave this.  It is a filter term.
ferulebezel
-----------------------------------------
Mark Healey
deblist@healeyonline.com
Don't bothor CCing or emailing this address.  Since spammers seem to be harvesting this
list anything that doesn't come from the list server is assumed to be spam and deleted.
ASUS A87V8X mobo w AMD Athalon
	Broadcom 4401 onboard nic
	with static IP Address
ATI All-In-Wonder 9700 Video card.
	Sampo Alphascan 17mx monitor