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In article <7NPYo-82F-33@gated-at.bofh.it>, john gennard wrote:
I have an IBM T20 Laptop and want to put on it Etch
(Kernel 2.6.18-3) with Kde. The installation without GUI
is fine, but Kde will not launch. Error messages in
/var/log/kdm.log indicate that the installer assumed the
laptop has a Synaptics Touchpad and this cannot be detected.
/proc/bus/input/devices show that the device is in fact a
'TPPS/2 IBM Trackpoint' Googlings for the Trackpoint show a
confusing picture which I don't understand.
However, as I have considerable arthritis in the hands and
fingers, I have been using an external PS/2 mouse, so I can
do without the 'fiddly' Trackpoint. I commented out references
to Synaptics Touchpad in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, but Kde still
does not launch and the error messages )in Kdm.log) now say:-
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(EE) No devices detected
Fatal Server error:
no screens found.
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At the moment, to get into Etch, I have to boot into single
user mode, otherwise the Laptop locks solid.
I had a similar problem. It turned out my system
was missing packages "hal" and "udev".
X.org wants to use keyboard and mouse via
hardware abstraction layer, but the dependency
was missing.
Cameron