Hi Steven,
I'm going to go ahead and CC: the list because this is odd.
Are you sure there's no /dev/psaux ? That really should be
there.. ( on my HP the touchpad is a ps/2 device, can't say
for sure about the VAIO )
I would just remove the xdm package "dpkg --purge xdm" for
the time being.. so, does your mouse work when you set
it to /dev/ttyS0 in xf86config?
What version of Debian are you using, where did you get it
from etc?
thanks
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 05:38:18AM -0500, steven k. thompson wrote:
> Thanks, but neither of those files /dev/mouse or /dev psuax
> exist at present. (I'm not using an external mouse but the
> trackpad).
>
> I tried running xf86config and identifying the mouse with
> /dev/ttyS0. Now I get a graphical login screen but my
> input of id and password are not recognized so I get stuck
> there.
>
> I have changed to run level 1 (single user mode) for the time
> being.
>
> Where do I control whether X or xdm start automatically
> before login? I would like to be starting them manually
> for now.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve
>
>
> Rob Helmer wrote:
> >
> > Hi Steven,
> >
> > Please send the output of "ls -la /dev/mouse"
> >
> > If it is /dev/gpmdata, then gpm must be installed and running,
> > and repeating as type "ps2".
> >
> > If it is blank, either do the above, or, if you don't want
> > or care about having the mouse on the console, just symlink
> > /dev/psaux to /dev/mouse like so : "ln -s /dev/psaux /dev/mouse"
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 08:50:55AM -0500, steven k. thompson wrote:
> > > I installed Debian 2.2r2 (potato) on a Sony Vaio F340 yesterday but so
> > > far the X window system does not work. Can anyone point me to
> > > information that will help me get it working?
> > >
> > > Incidentally, I tried to invoke anXious to probe and
> > > reconfigure but when I type "anXious" at the command line
> > > nothing happens, even though the file /usr/bin/anXious
> > > seems to be there. So I tried with xf86config instead, but
> > > evidently have not got it right. When I typed "startx"
> > > it gave an error message "cannot open mouse (no such file or
> > > directory). I had specified ps/2 and dev/mouse.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Steve
> > >
> > >
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