On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 23:21, Roland Dunn wrote: > Hi, > > I've just installed DEBIAN (Woody) on my machine. When I run startx to > launch X, it seems to launch X, I see the cross mouse cursor, (I can move > the mouse cursor) the KDE screen pops up, goes through the first couple of > icons on the startup screen (looks like a nucleus and electrons type icon, > then a cog icon), then flashes the keyboard/mouse icon, then goes back to > standard console screen. > > The logfile at: /var/log/XFree86.0.log shows: > > (**) Configured Mouse: Protocol: "PS/2" > (**) Option "SendCoreEvents" > (**) Configured Mouse: always reports core events > (**) Option "CorePointer" > (**) Configured Mouse: Core Pointer > (**) Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" > (==) Configured Mouse: Buttons: 3 > (**) Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" > (**) Configured Mouse: Emulate3Buttons, Emulate3Timeout: 50 > (**) Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" > (**) Configured Mouse: ZAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5 > (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Configured Mouse" (type: MOUSE) > > Fatal server error: > Caught signal 4. Server aborting > > > When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send > the full server output, not just the last messages. > This can be found in the log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log". > Please report problems to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > The /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file contains: > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Generic Keyboard" > Driver "keyboard" > Option "CoreKeyboard" > Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" > Option "XkbModel" "pc104" > Option "XkbLayout" "us" > EndSection > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Configured Mouse" > Driver "mouse" > Option "SendCoreEvents" > Option "CorePointer" > Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" > Option "Protocol" "PS/2" > Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" > EndSection > > > > It used to contain the following: > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Generic Keyboard" > Driver "keyboard" > Option "CoreKeyboard" > Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" > Option "XkbModel" "pc104" > Option "XkbLayout" "us" > EndSection > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Configured Mouse" > Driver "mouse" > Option "CorePointer" > Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" > Option "Protocol" "PS/2" > Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" > EndSection > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Generic Mouse" > Driver "mouse" > Option "SendCoreEvents" "true" > Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" > Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2" > Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" > EndSection > > But this didn't work either. Things seem to point to the fact that it fails > on the mouse/keyboard, but the error log isn't particularly helpful really. I'm guessing. Try removing sendcoreevents and make sure you have only one mouse section in your config
> > Any ideas anyone? What is particularly strange is that if I run XFree86 > instead of startx, I get the standard X screen (not KDE), and I can control > the mouse fine. So perhaps it isn't the mouse that is the problem. > > The other thing that's a bit wierd is that I was sure during install I chose > gdm to be my default window manager - where is this set? Where is X told > which manager to use? gdm is a login manager and now a wm. Gnome is probably what you want. If you use startx you must edit .xinitrc. If you use gdm you can choose at login what wm you want. > > So, any ideas as to either how to fix this or where to look would be *very > very* welcome. > Thanks, Roland. > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]