I too had problems with the mouse that prevented my X from starting. I had to select
a generic 2 button mouse in order to get X to start even though I was using a
Microsmurf mouse. I have read somewhere that the setup routine sometime installs a
gpm mouse driver for use with some programs but that the gpm driver interferes with
the X window system. You'll need to disable gpm before starting X (don't know how but
I'm sure that someone here could help you out).
Regards,
Joseph Gardner
Senior Designer / Technical Support
Kirby Company
Cleveland, OH 44102
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From: Joel Doucet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> hello,
> I keep trying to contact someone from linuxmandrake but nobody wants to
> responce to my e-mails, i hope a human can read this message and tell me
> what to do. I just purshased "The Complete Linux operating system"
> and i am having trouble with it. When i configure X windows,i have to
> select my monitor, and since my monitor isn`t in the list i chose custom,
> and with redhat 5.1, everything worked fine but when it says it will run
> the x server, it doesn`t work, i don`t know if its my monitor of my video
> card but it says there is a problem with the configuration and it gives me
> the option of quiting of changing my configuration, did i just get ripped
> of or can i do something about it?
You need to know what error is occurring.
Look in the RedHat User's FAQ (find it on the web) at the section that deals with X11
and IIRC it tells you how to start X and generate an error text file. Then look at
that file. "It doesn't work" is not very helpful in trying to solve a problem, which
is why you aren't getting any responses. Have you read the FAQ, searched Deja News,
looked through the mail list archives? If you had, you might have already found the
answer. You aren't the first one to have this problem.
I have found that most of the kinds of errors you are having are caused by the mouse
not being configured properly. Run mouseconfig and make sure your mouse works first.
Hoyt
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