Re: X won't start
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 02:37:34PM -0800, Mark Healey wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 14:58:01 -0600, Kent West wrote:
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> >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.
There is a wiki, which could perhaps serve this function... Presumably
someone knows where it is? I seem to remember it is mentioned in the
regular newbie post on this list.
-- hendrik
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> 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
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