Re: Debian (Woody) Problem With startx
On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 23:21, Roland Dunn wrote:
> 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.
I'm guessing. Try removing sendcoreevents and make sure you have only
one mouse section in your config
>
> 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?
gdm is a login manager and now a wm. Gnome is probably what you want. If
you use startx you must edit .xinitrc. If you use gdm you can choose at
login what wm you want.
>
> 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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