On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 04:41:13PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > on 25/02/2002 12:57, Chris Tillman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 03:50:58PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> > >> Cool, thanks for the tip. I have tried /dev/input/mice, but maybe it'll > >> work > >> this time with the dpkg-reconfigure. (hopefully). Seeing the desktop is > >> like > >> seeing something you want, but there's a 6 inch piece of glass blocking you > >> from touching it. > > > > You might also try disabling gpm. I understand it can interfere with X if > > not set up right. > > oh, ok. It (gpm) works fine in the debian console, but when I go into X, it > does nothing. (I said this before, sorry) Ok, so when I've already started > up, how do I kill an app that's been loaded by the init.d stuff? is it > "killall -HUP [name of app/daemon]"? > > I tried dpkg-reconfigure, it didn't work. It told me that debconf wasn't > installed or not ...(something)..., which it is. I assume I can do some > config work within the window manager's environment, but how would you > config the WM outside that environment? The only tip I got from the man > pages was "you can configure ... inside the window manager...". I also tried > letting the WM set the mouse config, and all it did was change the /dev/ > file in such a way that the symlink file pointing to it broke (and it was > /dev/adbmouse, BTW, just re-named to "|gpmdata").
You're out of my league now; but there are 2 ways to start X, startx and gdm. With gdm, you have a choice of what kind of session you want, I think. When installed as part of the tasksel desktop package, I think most of this stuff is taken care of for you; at least gnome starts for me automatically when I start X. -- *------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------* | <http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/installmanual> | | debian-imac (potato): <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | May the Source be with you | *----------------------------------------------------------------*
