I can't get X to run on my new woody installation (installed from the net using the isolinux method). The base installation went well. I've tried several times to generate an XF86Config-4 file --but none of them work (I used XFree86 -configure, and also the ?debconf method). When I run startx, it ends with an error message: "cannot open device /dev/input/mice No such device".
/dev/input/mice seems to exist, however. My keyboard and mouse are both usb. The mouse is a HP wheel mouse with a left and right button and the wheel. Both the mouse and keyboard were working perfectly under Mandrake 8.2, which I have unfortunately nuked to install Debian (I know I should have looked carefully at my XF86Config-4 file under Mandrake...) The keyboard works fine with the console (don't know about under X, haven't gotten that far yet...). I copied a usb mouse config section from an XF86Config-4 file that someone kindly posted to this group in the past -- it also didn't work with the same error message. Here is the relevant section: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "SendCoreEvents" "true" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Any ideas or suggestions? I installed the 2.4 kernel with woody, hoping it would have more mature usb handling capacity. Do I need to link or configure /dev/input/mice somehow, or is this a red herring? Thanks for any help, as I am stuck!! I even had to boot into XP to send this... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]