Re: Dell 8600 gdm startup problem

[Wendy Leigh Vandoolaeghe]

Thanks, adding psmouse to /etc/modules seems to work.:)

On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Frans Pop wrote:

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On Monday 20 September 2004 22:21, Wendy Leigh Vandoolaeghe wrote:

Sorry...

the last bit of the /var/log/XFree86.0.log says the following:

(**) Configured Mouse: Protocol:"ImPS/2"
(**) Option "CorePointer"
(**) Configured MOuse: Core Pointer
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
(EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice No such device
(EE) Configured Mouse: cannot open input device
(EE) PreInit failed for input device "Configured Mouse"
(II) UnloadModule: "mouse"
(WW) No core pointer registered
(II) Server_Terminate keybinding not found
      No core pointer

fatal server error: failed to initialize core devices

Check this bugreport. Maybe that's your problem. It also has a workaround.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=255744

Cheers,
FJP
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