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Debian (Woody) Problem With startx



Hi,

I've just installed DEBIAN (Woody) on my machine. When I run startx to
launch X, it seems to launch X, I see the cross mouse cursor, (I can move
the mouse cursor) the KDE screen pops up, goes through the first couple of
icons on the startup screen (looks like a nucleus and electrons type icon,
then a cog icon), then flashes the keyboard/mouse icon, then goes back to
standard console screen.

The logfile at: /var/log/XFree86.0.log shows:

(**) Configured Mouse: Protocol: "PS/2"
(**) Option "SendCoreEvents"
(**) Configured Mouse: always reports core events
(**) Option "CorePointer"
(**) Configured Mouse: Core Pointer
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
(==) Configured Mouse: Buttons: 3
(**) Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
(**) Configured Mouse: Emulate3Buttons, Emulate3Timeout: 50
(**) Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
(**) Configured Mouse: ZAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Configured Mouse" (type: MOUSE)

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 4.  Server aborting


When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send
the full server output, not just the last messages.
This can be found in the log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log".
Please report problems to submit@bugs.debian.org.

The /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file contains:
Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Generic Keyboard"
        Driver          "keyboard"
        Option          "CoreKeyboard"
        Option          "XkbRules"      "xfree86"
        Option          "XkbModel"      "pc104"
        Option          "XkbLayout"     "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Configured Mouse"
        Driver          "mouse"
        Option          "SendCoreEvents"
        Option          "CorePointer"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/psaux"
        Option          "Protocol"              "PS/2"
        Option          "Emulate3Buttons"       "true"
        Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
EndSection



It used to contain the following:
Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Generic Keyboard"
        Driver          "keyboard"
        Option          "CoreKeyboard"
        Option          "XkbRules"      "xfree86"
        Option          "XkbModel"      "pc104"
        Option          "XkbLayout"     "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Configured Mouse"
        Driver          "mouse"
        Option          "CorePointer"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/psaux"
        Option          "Protocol"              "PS/2"
        Option          "Emulate3Buttons"       "true"
        Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Generic Mouse"
        Driver          "mouse"
        Option          "SendCoreEvents"        "true"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/input/mice"
        Option          "Protocol"              "ImPS/2"
        Option          "Emulate3Buttons"       "true"
        Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
EndSection

But this didn't work either. Things seem to point to the fact that it fails
on the mouse/keyboard, but the error log isn't particularly helpful really.

Any ideas anyone? What is particularly strange is that if I run XFree86
instead of startx, I get the standard X screen (not KDE), and I can control
the mouse fine. So perhaps it isn't the mouse that is the problem.

The other thing that's a bit wierd is that I was sure during install I chose
gdm to be my default window manager - where is this set? Where is X told
which manager to use?

So, any ideas as to either how to fix this or where to look would be *very
very* welcome.
Thanks, Roland.





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