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Re: set up Xserver for etch upgrade



On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 08:15:13 -0000, rocky wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> I updated my debian box to the latest stable release which is etch.
> And the xserver stop working. I start the machine with a knoppix live
> CD version 2.78 runing on 2.4.27 kernel. At start up I see the below
> lines
> [QUOTE]Mouse is Generic PS/2 Wheel Mouse at /dev/psaux
> Soundcard: VIA Technologies|VT8233 [AC97 Audio Controller]
> driver=via82cxxx_audio
> Video is nVidia GeForce 4, using XFree86(nv) Server
> Monitor is KTC1700,H;28.0-96.0kHz, V:50.0-75.0Hz
> Using Modes "1024x768""800x600""640x400"[/QUOTE]
> 
> Wile boot from the hard disk which has upgraded Debian etch and starx
> get the below error

[...]

> (EE) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable
> (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/psaux
>         No such device.
> (EE) Configured Mouse: cannot open input device
> (EE) PreInit failed for input device "Configured Mouse"
>     xkb_keycodes             { include "xfree86+aliases(qwerty)" };
>     xkb_types                { include "complete" };
>     xkb_compatibility        { include "complete" };
>     xkb_symbols              { include "pc(pc105)+us" };
>     xkb_geometry             { include "pc(pc104)" };
> No core pointer
> 
> Fatal server error:
> failed to initialize core devices
> XIO:  fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
>       after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
> [/QUOTE]

[...]

> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier      "Configured Mouse"
>         Driver          "mouse"
>         Option          "CorePointer"
>         Option          "Device"                "/dev/psaux"
>         Option          "Protocol"              "auto"
>         Option          "Emulate3Buttons"       "true"
>         Option          "Emulate3Buttons"       "70"
> EndSection

[...]

Try "modprobe psmouse" and check if /dev/psaux is created then. If this
does not make it work then you might have a problem with udev. In that
case I would like to see the output of the following two commands:

dpkg -l hotplug udev | grep -v '^[D|+]'

ls -l /dev/input/by-path/

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