Re: Xserver didn't start

2004-06-20 Thread richard lyons
On Sunday 20 June 2004 01:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] You have to set the repeat type in gpmconfig (or manually in /etc/gpm.conf and then restart gpm); the official repeat type I believe is supposed to be ms3 (there's a

Re: Xserver didn't start

2004-06-19 Thread Kent West
markspace wrote: Hi all, I have a new debian install on a machine with a Geforce 2 video card. After the install was complete, the Xserver refused to start, so I have no gui. I'm not sure where to start debugging this. Look at the messages displayed on console. Look in the log file

Re: Xserver didn't start

2004-06-19 Thread Brenden T.
Kent West wrote: markspace wrote: Hi all, I have a new debian install on a machine with a Geforce 2 video card. After the install was complete, the Xserver refused to start, so I have no gui. I'm not sure where to start debugging this. Look at the messages displayed on console. Look in the

Re: Xserver didn't start

2004-06-19 Thread Kent West
Brenden T. wrote: Kent West wrote: markspace wrote: Hi all, I have a new debian install on a machine with a Geforce 2 video card. After the install was complete, the Xserver refused to start, so I have no gui. I'm not sure where to start debugging this. Look at the messages displayed on

Re: Xserver didn't start

2004-06-19 Thread Brenden T.
Kent West wrote: Brenden T. wrote: Kent West wrote: markspace wrote: Hi all, I have a new debian install on a machine with a Geforce 2 video card. After the install was complete, the Xserver refused to start, so I have no gui. I'm not sure where to start debugging this. Look at the messages

Re: Xserver didn't start

2004-06-19 Thread Paul Scott
Brenden T. wrote: Now it gets new and improved errors and refuses to start. (II) Keyboard Generic Keyboard handled by legacy driver (**) Option Protocol PS/2 (**) Configured Mouse: Protocol: PS/2 (**) Option CorePointer (**) Configured Mouse: Core Pointer (**) Option Device /dev/psaux (EE)

Re: Xserver didn't start

2004-06-19 Thread Paul Scott
Paul Scott wrote: Keep doing: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 (and restarting X) until the mouse works. I should have said that if you are letting debconf manage your configuration then it will remember all your previous configuration answers and you will just have to press Enter or

Re: Xserver didn't start

2004-06-19 Thread Kent West
Paul Scott wrote: Paul Scott wrote: Keep doing: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 (and restarting X) until the mouse works. I should have said that if you are letting debconf manage your configuration then it will remember all your previous configuration answers and you will just have to press

Re: Xserver didn't start

2004-06-19 Thread Paul Scott
Kent West wrote: Except that he manually commented out the BusID line in XF86Config-4, so now debconf will no longer modify that file until he does the stuff at the top of the file. Thanks. I had already deleted that part of the thread. Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Xserver didn't start

2004-06-19 Thread Brenden
On Saturday 19 June 2004 11:10 am, Paul Scott wrote: Kent West wrote: Except that he manually commented out the BusID line in XF86Config-4, so now debconf will no longer modify that file until he does the stuff at the top of the file. Yeah, I saw that. If I need to configure again I'll

Re: Xserver didn't start

2004-06-19 Thread Mike Chandler
On Saturday 19 June 2004 10:55 am, Kent West wrote: Except that he manually commented out the BusID line in XF86Config-4, so now debconf will no longer modify that file until he does the stuff at the top of the file. At this point, it might just be easier to manually modify the

Re: Xserver didn't start

2004-06-19 Thread Kent West
Mike Chandler wrote: Hi Kent, as long as you're in here, can I ask a question? Does gpm not work with a usb wheel mouse? I install gpm, then do dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 (change to /dev/gpmdata) restart X and the mouse is frozen. Thanks... Yes, it will, but I think there's been some

Re: Xserver didn't start

2004-06-19 Thread mailmanmike
- Original Message - From: Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2004 9:47 PM Subject: Re: Xserver didn't start Mike Chandler wrote: Hi Kent, as long as you're in here, can I ask a question? Does gpm not work with a usb wheel mouse? I install

Xserver didn't start

2004-06-18 Thread markspace
Hi all, I have a new debian install on a machine with a Geforce 2 video card. After the install was complete, the Xserver refused to start, so I have no gui. I'm not sure where to start debugging this. I picked nv as the driver during install, was this not NVidia? How would I go about