On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 12:45:56PM -0300, 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? > > > When I upgraded xfree86-common from 3.x to 4.x I think I told dpkg to > use > my config file instead of the maintainer's new version, so it wouldn't stop > working. Is there a way to tell X to read new versions of XF86Config, so I > can rewrite the config file and add the "InputDevice" section?
Check man dexconf It helped me with a mouse problem after upgrading, possibly it helps you too. Helmut
