[ale] no X?

[Chris Ricker]

On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Robert L. Harris wrote:

> 
> 
> Just upgraded my box to 2.4.12, latest debian Sid.  Now when I start X
> it says:
> (**) NV(0): DPMS enabled
> (II) Keyboard "Generic Keyboard" handled by legacy driver
> (**) Configured Mouse: Protocol: "PS/2"
> (**) Configured Mouse: Core Pointer
> (==) Configured Mouse: Buttons: 3
> (**) Configured Mouse: Emulate3Buttons, Emulate3Timeout: 50
> (**) Generic Mouse: Protocol: "ImPS/2"
> (**) Generic Mouse: always reports core events
> (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice
>         No such file or directory.
> (EE) Generic Mouse: cannot open input device
> (EE) PreInit failed for input device "Generic Mouse"
> (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Configured Mouse" (type: MOUSE)
> 
> waiting for X server to shut down
> 
> I've got a standard psaux (ps2) mouse plugged in.  When I compiled the 
> kernel that was enabled as always.

You need a new kernel and support devices.  Since you're apparently on 
Intel, you probably just need to enable Input Core and then Input 
Mouse support; on things like Ultrasparcs where the mouse isn't part of the 
Input core, you have to enable devfs (which should also work on Intel).  

Once you do that, /dev/input/mice is character 13,63

later,
chris






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