Re: XFree86 problem

[Andreas Janssen <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com>]

Hello

Gruessle (<debian@orces.com>) wrote:

> [...]
> How did this happen you ask.
> 
> I was trying to set up following but read on to see what happened:
> device=/dev/psaux
> responsiveness=25
> type=imps2
> repeat_type=raw
> 
> 
> and your /etc/X11/XFConfig-4 file, Input Device section will look
> something like:
> Section "InputDevice"
>          Identifier      "Configured Mouse"
>          Driver          "mouse"
>          Option          "CorePointer"
>          Option          "Device"                "/dev/gpmdata"
>          Option          "Protocol"              "ImPS/2"
>          Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
> EndSection
> 
> I do have a file called |gpmdata in /dev/ but the size is 0 and
> it shows up black in mc plus it has this "|" in front
> And last date changed shows just a few min. ago.
> Looks like that file got corrupted somehow when I did the change to
> XFConfig-4.
> How do I get that file fixed?

It is a device file, and I think it is perfectly okay. However, using
/dev/gpmdata only works if gpm is running. Did you make sure it was
started before you tried to load XFree?

> My X id not working at all anymore until I can fix this.
> And why did that happen?

I would use dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 instead of other programs.

best regards
        Andreas Janssen

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