George, Thanks a lot for your reply, I really appreciate it, and will take a look at the settings you included. I guess, though, that you're using Woody (or Sid), because you say you are running XFree86 4.1 and your configuration shows an ati driver. I have potato with XFree86 3.3, which has no ati (video) driver, and that's part of the problem. I'm trying to solve this without upgrading, which may simply be impossible. (And which would, apparently, solve most, if not all, these problems.) In any event, I do really appreciate your response, and I will root around where you suggested, even though some of it is a bit over my head (eg: getting the mouse to work on console?). The kernel, BTW, is recognizing the mouse on startup. Thanks again, Mike
>Hello Mike, >I'm not experienced with the theory of your problem... >On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 09:39:06AM -0400, mmissett wrote: >> the result is the same: startx says, "cannot open mouse (no >> such file or directory)". And it's right: that file doesn't >> exist. > ...and do not understand _why_ /dev/input/mice doesn't exist in your > installation ... > >> My question is: if anXious, attempting to configure X, >> gets as far as not finding a video card it can drive and stops, >> has it failed to *create* a mouse file? > >...I can't imagine that the character devices in the directory /dev/input >should be created by anxious....
