This one time, at band camp, Wathen, Metherion said: > Hello, I just installed Debian 2x on an older Pentium PC. Everything > went well until it was time to start X, the screen flashes text rolls > by then it stops with a message that "xserver cant find /dev/mouse". I > have a generic no-name brand mouse, it has a driver disk for the > windows os. Do I need to reinstall everything? Is there a way this > can be fixed w/o reinstall? > > Thanks in advance for any and all help. mw.
Check that /dev/mouse is actually a symlink to /dev/psaux (the PS/2
port). If it is, then something's screwy in your X configuration.
I'm assuming you're referring to the kernel version, rather than the
Debian version, above. Try `cat /etc/debian_version` (without the
backticks) - if you see 3.0, it's woody, if you see 2.2, it's potato.
The reason I bring this up is that they have different versions of
XFree86.
For both, you can type `dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86` to walk back
through the setup for X - this time around try choosing /dev/psaux as
your mouse.
If that doesn't work out for you, write back. Try to figure out which
version of X you're running, and include specific error messages (from
the screen and the log files generated - /var/log/XFree86.log and
~/.xsession-errors).
HTH,
Steve
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