On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Vitor Silva Souza wrote:
> Hi,
> I was browsing through the archives to find a way to make the wheels of
> my
> MS Intellimouse work on X. I found a piece of configuration that should be
> inserted on XF86Config:
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Generic Mouse"
> Driver "mouse"
> Option "CorePointer"
> Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
> Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
> Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
> Option "Buttons" "5"
> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> EndSection
>
> So, I inserted it as directed, and when I tried to run startx:
>
> Config Error: /etc/XF86Config:21
> Section "InputDevice"
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> not a recognized section name
>
>
> Here's the version of xfree that I'm using:
>
> seattle:/etc# dpkg -l xfree*
> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
> |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
> uppercase=bad)
> ||/ Name Version Description
> +++-==============-==============-============================================
> ii xfree86-common 4.0.3-4 X Window System (XFree86) infrastructure
> What did I do wrong?
Sounds like you're still using XFree 3.x. Do a dpkg -l
xserver-xfree86 and make sure that that's version 4.
Simon
