Quoting Bob Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: <snip>
> I still receive the PEXExtensionInit error as well. I have not had time > to play with correcting that. The line about the /dev/gpmdata tells that > you are running gpm and trying to run X. My understanding is that on the > Sun you cannot run both gpm and X. I was having similar trouble, so I > stopped gpm and tried 'startx'. It started fine and working no troubles. > > Cheers > Bob i noticed gpm will conflict with xsun* (told during dselect) therefore i marked gpm for purge so i'm pretty sure my system doesn't have gpm installed. nevertherless i tried to double-confirm myself: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg --print-avail gpm | less Package: gpm Priority: standard Section: misc Installed-Size: 424 Maintainer: Zephaniah E. Hull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: sparc Version: 1.17.8-18 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.2), debianutils (>= 1.7) Filename: dists/potato/main/binary-sparc/misc/gpm_1.17.8-18.deb Size: 182410 MD5sum: 85adffed9bf87585a6a68be3aad7ca0d Description: General Purpose Mouse Interface This package provides a daemon that listens to the mouse when the console is displayed, and delivers them to applications. . The default when no application is running is to emulate "selection", i.e. allow cut-and-paste with the mouse on the console the same way as under X. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ su - root Password: jsbsl:~# dpkg -r gpm dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove gpm which isn't installed. jsbsl:~# hmmm...what is happening now? i was told to stop gpm, how exactly can i do that? again, helps is much needed to get my X up. ----------------------------------------------------- Get your FREE email from Catcha! http://mail.catcha.com
