On Mon, September 12, 2005 10:25 pm, Roger Searle said: > Hi, I have just "completed" a network install of suse 9.3 to my notebook > via nfs which was a good learning exercise and went well right up to > logging on for the first time. Clearly the resolution was detected too > low and I was prompted to configure it so I chose [EMAIL PROTECTED] thinking > this to be right and safe. Perhaps not... And as I look through the > following, perhaps this isn't because I changed the resolution? > > The test did not work so I just foolishly continued and responded to the > message that the settings will take place the next time I logged in (or > words similar). So I logged out and now can not start an x session. I > get a command line login at which I can log on but no nice KDE desktop. > > The error put up on the screen appears to be the log file > /var/log/Xorg.0.log (and it refers to itself for additional information > which is how I know). The relevant lines appear to be: > Data incomplete in file /etc/X11/xorg.conf > Undefined InputDevice "Mouse[3]" referenced by ServerLayout "Layout[all]". > (EE) Problem parsing the config file > (EE) Error parsing the config file > Fatal server error: > no screens found > (and then it refers to itself).
run sax2 (as root) from the command line. > > I have fired up an editor and viewed /etc/X11/xorg.conf - lots of > sections in there, but the one referenced above is: > Section "ServerLayout" > Identifier "Layout[all]" > InputDevice "Keyboard[0]" "CoreKeyboard" > InputDevice "Mouse[1]" CorePointer" > InputDevice "Mouse[3]" "SendCoreEvents" > InputDevice "Keyboard[4]" "ExtraKeyboard" > InputDevice "Mouse[5]: "ExtraPointer" > Option "Clone" "off" > Option "VNC" "5 4" > Option "Xinerama" "off" > Screen "Screen[0]" > EndSection > > After feeling quite clever for having managed the network install with > almost no problem at all, I'm looking forward to the challenge of > getting KDE running again, if anyone is able to help me sort this out? > > Cheers, > Roger > > > >
