On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 02:58:35PM -0500, mmissett wrote: > Chris, > > I decided to take your advice > and give apt-get another chance, following your > settings and recommendations and it worked > perfectly. It really is a remarkable and > impressive phenomenon. > > Thanks. > > However, it didn't get startx to work, though, but > at least it gave me a different error message; > that xserver-xfree86 was not fully installed. I did > an apt-get to rectify that situation, which it did, > then ran dpkg-reconfigure on it, which it did. > After all that I'm back to my same old error > message on startx again -- can find the mouse. > I've tried using (in /etc/X11/XF86Config) for > device: "/dev/usbmouse" (which I think is what > reconfigure did, does that sound right?) Then > "usbmouse" (which is what was in there before > and worked) and then "/dev/input/mice". None > of these work. When using "/dev/input/mice" the > process points out -- correctly -- that there is no > such file. This is the exact same problem I had > when I set up potato, which took forever to fix, I > can't believe I have to go through it all again. My > recollection is that it was solved at that time with > "usbmouse", but that is not working now. The > choices for mouse in reconfigure don't have > anything that really seems appropriate (like USB > mouse, for instance). Sorry to be back to the > same old thing, but do you have any other > ideas? > > Mike > > P.S: If I haven't said so far, it's a 3-button/wheel > Logitech USB mouse.
AFAIK, /dev/input/mice is the correct node for all powerpc mice. You might try cd /dev ./MAKEDEV input That should at least create the device. Hopefully, someone else will weigh in. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net
