On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 12:26:32PM -0400, Simon Law wrote: > On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Vitor Silva Souza wrote: > > > Hi, > > I was browsing through the archives to find a way to make the wheels of > > my > > MS Intellimouse work on X. I found a piece of configuration that should be > > inserted on XF86Config: > > > > Section "InputDevice" > > Identifier "Generic Mouse" > > Driver "mouse" > > Option "CorePointer" > > Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" > > Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" > > Option "SendCoreEvents" "true" > > Option "Buttons" "5" > > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" > > EndSection > > > > So, I inserted it as directed, and when I tried to run startx: > > > > Config Error: /etc/XF86Config:21 > > Section "InputDevice" > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > not a recognized section name > > > > > > Here's the version of xfree that I'm using: > > > > seattle:/etc# dpkg -l xfree* > > Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold > > | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed > > |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: > > uppercase=bad) > > ||/ Name Version Description > > +++-==============-==============-============================================ > > ii xfree86-common 4.0.3-4 X Window System (XFree86) infrastructure > > What did I do wrong? > > Sounds like you're still using XFree 3.x. Do a dpkg -l > xserver-xfree86 and make sure that that's version 4.
You might not necessarily use xserver-xfree86 though, depending on wether it will support ones graphics card. The XFree86 server supports most modern graphics hardware ... (from $ apt-cache show xserver-xfree86). And ... X server (usually xserver-xfree86, but some users may require a different one), ... (from $ apt-cache show xfree86-common). So you might possibly use the X server you have already had using XFree86 3.x. Helmut
