chetan mittal wrote:
hi !
I have a serious problem ... i installed Debian Linux on IBM PC 300PL
having Intel PII 350 Mhz. Whole installation went Ok and i reached at
Login without any problem. But when i started X-server , it reports
Fatal Server Error, mouse driver not found but during installation
driver was /dev/mouse.
/dev/mouse is usually a symlink to the actual mouse device (like
/dev/psaux or /dev/ttyS0). If this symlink doesn't exist or is pointing
to an invalid device, you'll get this error.
I personally don't like using a /dev/mouse symlink. I'd rather tell
XF86Config specifically what device to use.
So you basically have two choices:
1) ln -s /dev/psaux /dev/mouse
to create a symbolic link to /dev/psaux
2) edit /etc/X11/XF86Config[-4] and modify the /dev/mouse line to
point to the correct device (/dev/psaux for the PS2 port, or /dev/ttyS0
for the COM1 serial port, or /dev/gpmdata if you're using the console
mouse driver gpm and it's repeating the data to X)
Kent
