I'm still having these problems, on my main machine, which has
resisted XFree from the start.
As sugested, I've updated the kernel to the prebuilt image 2.4.18-k7
from the woody isos and confirmed the update with uname. It still
won't recognise my usb mouse.
The mouse in question is a logitech MX700. I find it hard to belive
that the iso kernel builds do not support somthing as comon as a usb
mouse, maybe there is another problem here? Google groups says nothing
much about this mouse and debian [http://tinyurl.com/2tvzo] and in
windows it works as a standard usb mouse.
As you can see I'm directing x to "/dev/input/mice". How can I be sure
my kernel is using /dev/input/mice for the usb mouse?
When X tries to start I get some odd looking static. Mostly green, but
with thick vertical lighter/darker stripes and sometimes some still
shapes at the top. Then it throws me back to the command line.
Should it matter if I'm using gdm, kdm or xdm?
Again, find my X log and config here
http://users.aber.ac.uk/jqh1/x/XF86Config-4
http://users.aber.ac.uk/jqh1/x/XFree86.0.log