On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 10:12:09AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Yesterday I installed XFree86 in Woody on a sun4c. > Xserver configuration was with debconf. > > "startx xpdf" fails with these error messages > among the many lines of XFree86.0.log. > > (EE) No OS PCI support available > ... > (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice > No such device. > (EE) Generic Mouse: cannot open input device > (EE) PreInit failed for input device "Generic Mouse" > > Mouse configuration certainly appears to be the > culprit. Can anyone suggest a repair? >
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 and select the appropriate mouse type. Likely you will want the gpm repeater, so make sure you configure gpm correctly. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/

