I think I may have obscured the issue with earlier posts, so let me back up and
start over. I have recently installed potato on a G4. Installed Xwindows, from
CD. The configuration gave me the message that it couldn’t determine the video
card and, I think, stopped. At least, it didn’t ask any more questions. Now
when
I do startx it fails, saying “cannot open mouse (no such file or directory).
The
mouse is a one button Apple USB optical mouse. The video card is a Rage 128
Pro. xviddetect gives “unable to determine driver for video card”. There is no
“/dev/input/mice” or “/dev/usbmouse”file. I have tried to find something
relevant
in the archives, but without much success.
My questions are: Is the problem the video card, not the mouse? Or both?
How do I tell it what the video card is? How do I tell it what the mouse is
and/or
get it to work with same? Sorry if all this is stupid/basic/newbie, but I’ve
run out
of ideas for experiments to try. Any help would be most appreciated.
Michael
