hi dave with his flake miata again....
i have a fully installed system. it is set to start x on boot-up (xdm?) of course, it hangs hard as it tries to start x. no ctl/alt/F1 i have become good at the rescue disk, the ae editor, etc. it hangs if i specify /dev/psaux for the mouse. i was trying a known good mouse. i was able to bring it back up by changing back to busmouse and /dev/ttyS1... it just fails in startup and goes to a console login. i notice that this known good mouse (optical) fails to lite up its led when plugged into a serial port. the error reported: Fatal server error: Cannot open mouse (No such file or directory) even tho the devices are there. however, the device looks like: crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 65 Nov 25 2000 /dev/ttyS1 do we have a permission problem? a group problem? i think so... thanks for bearing with me. dave -- Dave Mallery, K5EN PO Box 520 Ramah, NM 87321 no gates no windows... running GNU/Linux free at last! Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds
