I have a fresh install of Debian amd64 / pure64. Most everything seems to work fine, but I have a hard time getting X started. Initially I disabled xdm, but it didn't help any.
Basically, I'll type 'startx', wait a few seconds and x will fail. The last few lines of /var/log/XFree86.0.log read... ================================================ (II) Keyboard "Generic Keyboard" handled by legacy driver (**) Option "Protocol" "PS/2" (**) Configured Mouse: Protocol: "PS/2" (**) Option "CorePointer" (**) Configured Mouse: Core Pointer (**) Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/psaux No such device. (EE) Configured Mouse: cannot open input device (EE) PreInit failed for input device "Configured Mouse" (II) UnloadModule: "mouse" (**) Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2" (**) Generic Mouse: Protocol: "ImPS/2" (**) Option "SendCoreEvents" "true" (**) Generic Mouse: always reports core events (**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice No such device. (EE) Generic Mouse: cannot open input device (EE) PreInit failed for input device "Generic Mouse" (II) UnloadModule: "mouse" (WW) No core pointer registered No core pointer Fatal server error: failed to initialize core devices ================================================ If I try 'startx' again, I get this... ================================================ (II) Keyboard "Generic Keyboard" handled by legacy driver (**) Option "Protocol" "PS/2" (**) Configured Mouse: Protocol: "PS/2" (**) Option "CorePointer" (**) Configured Mouse: Core Pointer (**) Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" (**) Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" (**) Configured Mouse: Emulate3Buttons, Emulate3Timeout: 50 (**) Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" (**) Configured Mouse: ZAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5 (**) Configured Mouse: Buttons: 5 (**) Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2" (**) Generic Mouse: Protocol: "ImPS/2" (**) Option "SendCoreEvents" "true" (**) Generic Mouse: always reports core events (**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" (**) Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" (**) Generic Mouse: Emulate3Buttons, Emulate3Timeout: 50 (**) Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" (**) Generic Mouse: ZAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5 (**) Generic Mouse: Buttons: 5 (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Generic Mouse" (type: MOUSE) (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Configured Mouse" (type: MOUSE) (II) Configured Mouse: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded (II) Generic Mouse: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded Warning: font renderer for ".pcf" already registered at priority 0 Warning: font renderer for ".pcf.Z" already registered at priority 0 Warning: font renderer for ".pcf.gz" already registered at priority 0 Warning: font renderer for ".snf" already registered at priority 0 Warning: font renderer for ".snf.Z" already registered at priority 0 Warning: font renderer for ".snf.gz" already registered at priority 0 Warning: font renderer for ".bdf" already registered at priority 0 Warning: font renderer for ".bdf.Z" already registered at priority 0 Warning: font renderer for ".bdf.gz" already registered at priority 0 Warning: font renderer for ".pmf" already registered at priority 0 (II) RADEON(0): [drm] removed 1 reserved context for kernel (II) RADEON(0): [drm] unmapping 8192 bytes of SAREA 0xffffff000036a000 at 0x2a9dc4a000 ===================================================== After which X will hang, then display garbage. Usually on the third or forth try, X starts and everything seems to work fine. I did a bit of Googling for similar situations, and someone suggested adding mousedev and pmouse to /etc/modules. If I do this, X starts on the first try, but the mouse doesn't work at all. I've checked to see that the mouse devices exist... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -al /dev/psaux /dev/input/mice crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 63 2004-09-18 17:53 /dev/input/mice crw------- 1 root root 10, 1 2004-09-18 17:51 /dev/psaux I looked at /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and found that I have entries for "Configured Mouse" at "/dev/psaux" and "Generic Mouse" at "/dev/input/mice". This struck me as a bit odd, but I have an x86 machine running Debian Sarge... its XF86Config-4 is set up the same way and X has always worked flawlessly. However, I tried removing one or the other entry on my amd64 to see if this would help. Either it made no difference or X didn't work at all. Other relevant information... Video Card: ATI-Radeon 9200 (using debian ati driver) Kernel Version: 2.6.9-9-amd64-k8 XFree86 version: 4.3.0.1 Can someone tell me what's going on? I've run Fedora on this machine without any problems (well, without this problem), so I don't think it's a hardware issue... I can post my entire XF86Config-4 file and my XFree86 log files if it would help, but I thought I'd ask first. Thanks in advance. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! http://my.yahoo.com