Re: x-crash (please decipher my log file)
On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 16:53, Niels L. Ellegaard wrote:
> Kent West <westk@acu.edu> writes:
> > Niels L. Ellegaard wrote:
> > >I removed the part about the generic mouse because I got a
> > >complaint that I did not have the device /dev/input/mice (I don't
> > >know how to create it... I make a symbolic link, and it get's
> > >deleted)
> >
> > I believe this device node is automagically created when a USB mouse
> > is inserted. Alternatively, you might try switching to the /dev
> > directory and running "./MAKEDEV mouse" or maybe even just
> > "./MAKEDEV". (This is from hazy understanding, so you might want to
> > do some research along these lines.)
>
> Hmm.. I don't own an USB mouse, so I guess that I should not have a
> device named /dev/input/mice. Perhaps my problem is caused by the fact
> that I don't know how to force "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86" to
> avoid creating a reference to a generic USB-mouse.
>
> Anyways.. This is not a big issue for me. I can just edit my XF86Config-4 by
> hand, and change the md5sums afterwards. Thanks for the help
It shouldn't matter that the extra section is in there; X will just
ignore it if it doesn't apply.
--
Kent
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