Re: cannot get into X - after testing dist-upgrade 11-03-05

[Andrey Andreev <andreev@cs.helsinki.fi>]

Hello

mailmanmike wrote:
> Doing "cat /dev/input/mice" gets "no such device" (something like that)

So, to recap, you had a large upgrade recently and X stopped working due
to a missing input device. You found your mouse is not working. My guess
would be that the upgrade removed hotplug, which caused your USB related
modules not to load.

Try checking (with lsmod) if you have the USB modules loaded (those uhci
and ehci things, exact name evades me, home linux box is off, so cannot
check). If not, load them with modprobe and try starting X again.

For some reason my Sid has refused to cope with hardware automatically
without hotplug.

Good luck,

Andro


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Andrey Andreev
University of Helsinki
Dept. of Computer Science