On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 03:07:31PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Matt Herzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi Adam. I saw your response on the sparc list and > > thought I might buy a clue. X will not start for > > love nor money on Debian but woked nicely under > > *gag* RedHat's Gnome Workstation install (the one > > without inetd.conf, heh). xsun24 is installed but > > when I type startx it can't find the mouse. So I > > installed gpm which obliterates xsun24! I need > > help. It's been over a year sin I ran Linux and > > I never ran it on sparc. I'm really glad some > > *nix supports my leo framebuffer tho. BSD doesn't. > > Well, the debian-sparc list is the place to look for info on that. I > believe you need /dev/sunmouse to be a symlink to /dev/mouse. > > Then make sure this is in /etc/X11/XF86Config (or does your X server > not have an XF86Config?) > > Section "Pointer" > Protocol "sun" > Device "/dev/mouse" > EndSection
The xsun servers do not support this, they default to sunmouse/mouse. > It's best to work it out w/o gpm first, then if you need GPM, it'll be > easier if you start from a working X11 configuration. The xsun servers also do not support working in conjunction with gpm, so if you have it installed, remove it. -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
