Re: Xserver
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 04:35:37PM +0900, Nick Hastings wrote:
> * J Y <jhy@x-mail.net> [030905 16:30]:
> > Hi I am new to debian, but have used those big commercial distros.
> > I installed 3.0 but am not having any luck getting X to start. I reinstalled several
> > times taking a lot of time checking the packages. But login just leaves me at the
> > command line. I type startx and get this response: Build Operating system: linux
> > 2.4.17i686 (ELF) module loader present (==) log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log",
> > (EE) Unable to locate/open config file
> > (EE) Error from xf86Handle Config File ()
> > Fatal Server error
> > no screens found
> >
> > XIO: Fatal IO error 104 (connection reset by peer)
> > on X server
> > "0.0" after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0
> > events remaining.
>
> You need to configure the xserver-xfree86 package. To get some
> hardware detection try installing the discover package first
>
> HOWTO
>
> % apt-get install discover
> % dpkg-reconfigure -plow xserver-xfree86
>
Check that you have /dev/mouse linked to /dev/psaux. (do ls -l
/dev/mouse, the end of the output should be /dev/mouse -> /dev/psaux)
If it says that there is no such file do as root
ln -s psaux /dev/mouse
Its a common problem I ran into.
> Cheers,
>
> Nick.
>
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> Debian testing/unstable
> Linux twofish 2.6.0-test3-looxt93c2 i686 GNU/Linux
>
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