lost XF86Config

[marcbachman]

I edited /etc/X11/XF86Config in the Pointer section and put "Auto" according to www.XF86.org (http://www.XF86.org) for my PS/2 mouse and then rebooted to linux. During the boot sequence I got an error message about "no such../dev/mouse so somehow i blotted that out. I recreated /dev/mouse with vi in text mode, I thought that might fix the problem, but now KDE doesn't boot and I get an error message about "couldn't find XF86Config" " looked in /HOME,..." so somehow I deleted or moved that file. Is there a way to get XF86Config back without reinstalling?

[ractus]

Well, I'm not pretty sure, but if you run Xconfigurator, does it generates another configuration file for u?

[DMR]

You could do find / -name XF86Configto see if the file exists anywhere on your box, but if not, take ractus' suggestion and re-run Xconfigurator to generate a new config file.

[Jinx]

Try running "XF86Setup", should generate another config file. Then selecting the "PS2" protocol from there and setting your mouse as device "/dev/psaux"... should work. :)

Note: I think the XF86Setup command is different for X Windows 4^.

"anXious" on Debian ain't bad either.

Cya round
Jinx

[slapNUT]

I recreated /dev/mouse with vi in text mode

How did you do that? I think what that error was telling you is that your symbolic link in the /dev directory that should point to your mouse is missing. I believe that link should point to /dev/psaux for a ps/2 mouse. To make the link type this in terminal as root:
ln -s /dev/psaux /dev/mouse

[marcbachman]

Thank You, My Friends. I got up early this morning and began the long process of reinstalling ( I thought I would save all of your good suggestions for next time) and got RH installed and working about 9:45 PM. Boy, is it hard to get RH to install! Anyway, I tried another edit on XF86Config and I can't get to KDE again. This sure seems to be a fragile OS to try to configure. So I will try to get to a command line and run Xconfigurator. I'll let you know. Thanks

[bdg1983]

It takes patience to learn and use Linux. Ever worked on a Unix system? Same thing.

Windows is like a toy compared to Linux. You have to research to see if your hardware is supported before deciding on any specific distro. The newer the hardware the newer the distro you will need unless you want to manually upgrade the kernel and X.

A good thing about Linux is the amount of documentation that's installed on your hd. Besides the man pages, just about every application has docs and then the how-to's and loads of documentation on X and the different video cards. Have a look around the filesystem and you'll see.

Good luck and I hope you get it all up and running.

[marcbachman]

OK, now I have a new problem, because I chose two options in XF86Config that are not compatible. I get and error message in boot sequence that says "you can't use....with..." So now I need to know how I can edit XF86 in text mode, or replace the file entirely, or I will have to reinstall entirely. ( An all day job on my system ) Obviously, it would be to my advantage to know how to replace or edit the file. I tried to do it from a shell prompt, initially I got " permission denied" then I did chmod +rwx and got to look at the file, but all the sections listed had in their line "command not found" and the file did not look at all like the one I found in Text Editor. And by the way I tried running Xconfigurator, which attempted to configure my mouse, and it said " line 5 in /etc/sysconfig/mouse not expected", and XF86Config is a "command not found" option in Red Hat. Any suggestions?

[ 22 July 2001: Message edited by: marcbachman ]

[ 23 July 2001: Message edited by: marcbachman ]