Re: XFree suddenly cannot open /dev/psaux

[Eddy <vive.linuxshadoko@belgacom.net>]

Hendrik Boom a écrit :

> Sudden trouble with X.  I don't know what I might have done, but is
> was all
> working yesterday.  I did try to configure ALSA (without any apparent
> success)
> but that shouldn't have messed up X, should it?  I looks as if it can
> no longer open /dev/psaux, and it refuses to start up without its
> mouse.

This looks like a problem I had a few days ago.

I installed alsa and when I booted the next day (this desktop is
shutdown at night), I couldn't start the X server anymore.

What happened I can't figure out but the psmouse module wasn't loaded.

Try 
        modprobe psmouse
        and restart X

and if it works, consider adding "psmouse" to /etc/modules.

>         InputDevice        "Configured Mouse"
>        InputDevice        "Generic Mouse"

By the way, I see that you have two InputDevices for probably only one
mouse.  I wonder why that is. In fact I had just the same and it didn't
bother me too much until I realised that it was responsible for wheel
actions being applied twice (when I rolled the whell to get to the next
desktop in wmaker, I ended up on the second next). I commented out the
Generic Mouse line in my XF86Config-4 and things are working well.

-- 
Eddy (enlever shadoko de l'adresse)

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