*- On 1 Jan, Kris Prieb wrote about "where is /dev/mouse???" > Here is my problem. I have just finished installing Debian/GNU Linux 2.1 on > my Pentium II machine and have begun to install and configure X. When I try > to execute 'startx' I get the error output listed below. It appears that > 'startx' requires the device file '/dev/mouse' I think this file was > supposed to have been created during my Debian installation but somehow it > wasn't. Anyone know where I slipped up during the installation and whether > or not I can correct the problem without reinstalling? Any help would be > greatly appreciated. [ick, your mailer doesn't wrap your lines]
/dev/mouse is not a real device file. It should just be a symbolic link to your real mouse device. Since you are telling it you have a ps/2 mouse you can either make the link from /dev/mouse to /dev/psaux or just tell it to use /dev/psaux and forget about the /dev/mouse link. If you want to use the /dev/mouse link then do the following as root. cd /dev rm mouse ln -s psaux mouse Brian Servis -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
