On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 06:38:38AM -0800, Clyde Wilson wrote: > Pigeon wrote: > >On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 12:46:28AM -0800, Clyde Wilson wrote: > >>I have just installed Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 rev 1 "woody". I can bring up > >>gnome just fine but when I try to bring up kde I get the following > >>message: > >> > >>(**) Generic Mouse: Protocol: "ImPS/2" > >>(**) Generic Mouse: always reports core events > >>(EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice > >> No such device. > >>(EE) Generic Mouse: cannot open input device > >>(EE) PreInit failed for input device "Generic Mouse" > >>(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Configured Mouse" (type: MOUSE) > >> > >>Fatal server error: > >>Caught signal 4. Server aborting > >> > >>I do have /dev/input/mice and I am using a PS/2 mouse. Any help would be > >>appreciated! > > > >/dev/input/mice is for USB mice. For a PS/2 mouse you want /dev/psaux. > > > >Also, ImPS/2 is for scroll wheel mice; if you don't have a scroll > >wheel, just plain PS/2 is probably what you want. > > I made the changes and kdm came down with no error messages... Sorry, "came down" is not an expression I recognise... do you mean it "came up" with no error messages, ie. it's now working OK, or it "went down" with no error messages, ie. it failed and didn't tell you why? If the latter... in what way exactly does it cease to function? A possibility: you seem to have two mice configured... comment out one of them. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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