X Not starting

[JustAGuyBDH]

I got Slackware installed successfully

Linux comes up and DHCP works - and everything seems great...

However, I type in StartX - to get into X... and the screen goes blank (as if it was trying to load X) but then...

It fails and I get this error

blah blah blah
(EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/mouse
No such device.
(EE) Mouse1: Cannot open input device
(EE) PreInit Failed for input device "Mouse1"
No core pointer
blah blah blah

Now, I have tried messing with etc/X11/XF86Config and setting the Mouse1 protocol to several different things...

I have a USB mouse and a Glidepoint (this is on my laptop)

When I'm in win2K - the Glidepoint says it's on the PS/2 port

Anyways - my guess is that I am missing a setting somewhere - any help would be appreciated

Thanks,
Brad

[mdwatts]

/dev/mouse should be a symlink from the actual device.

Since /dev/mouse does not exist, as root create using

ln -s /dev/psaux /dev/mouse

[sharth]

If that doesn't work (not sure if psaux likes usb mice) then try this....


mknod /dev/mouse c 13 63

also, to make sure the device is working. goto a command line and type

cat /dev/mouse

and then swirl your mouse abuot, random odd characters should start appering as you move / click the mouse. To get to a normal cli again, hit crtl + c

[JustAGuyBDH]

well, I tried both of your suggestions... however, both resulted in:

'/dev/mouse' : file exists

but, the mouse still does not work and when I tried to do the

cat /dev/mouse

it said device does not exist...

Here is what my pointer section looks like of my XF86Config


************************************************** ********************
# Core Pointer's InputDevice section
# ************************************************** ********************

Section "InputDevice"

# Identifier and driver

Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
# The available mouse protocols types that you can set below are:
# Auto BusMouse GlidePoint GlidePointPS/2 IntelliMouse IMPS/2
# Logitech Microsoft MMHitTab MMSeries Mouseman MouseManPlusPS/2
# MouseSystems NetMousePS/2 NetScrollPS/2 OSMouse PS/2 SysMouse
# ThinkingMouse ThinkingMousePS/2 Xqueue
Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
# Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
# Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS0"
# Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS1"

# When using XQUEUE, comment out the above two lines, and uncomment
# the following line.

# Option "Protocol" "Xqueue"

# Baudrate and SampleRate are only for some Logitech mice. In
# almost every case these lines should be omitted.

# Option "BaudRate" "9600"
# Option "SampleRate" "150"

# Emulate3Buttons is an option for 2-button Microsoft mice
# Emulate3Timeout is the timeout in milliseconds (default is 50ms)

# Option "Emulate3Buttons"
# Option "Emulate3Timeout" "50"

# ChordMiddle is an option for some 3-button Logitech mice

# Option "ChordMiddle"

EndSection


#

[JustAGuyBDH]

My only idea was that... maybe Linux is not recognizing my USB all together...

but, if that was the case... shouldn't it AT LEAST recognize my Glidepoint on my Laptop (which is on the PS/2 Port)???

Thank you both for all of your help...

[sharth]

do a...

ls -al /dev/mouse

and then post the results of that. It might be symlinking to gpmdata or something odd.

on the cat /dev/mouse, it either means that there is no device hooked up or that (for the usb mouse) that you don't have support built in. I dunno how to check for that so maybe md will know that part.

[JustAGuyBDH]

Thank you all for you help

I figured out the problem

I had to edit /etc/rc.d/rc.modules to support my mouse in USB

I edited 3 lines in that file, rebooted, and it worked :)

Again, thank you ALL for you help