On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 14:02:20 +0000, john gennard wrote:
> Florian Kulzer wrote:
> >On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 20:24:54 +0000, john gennard wrote:
> >
> >>I have an IBM T20 Laptop and want to put on it Etch
> >>(Kernel 2.6.18-3) with Kde. The installation without GUI
> >>is fine, but Kde will not launch. Error messages in
> >>/var/log/kdm.log indicate that the installer assumed the
> >>laptop has a Synaptics Touchpad and this cannot be detected.
> >>/proc/bus/input/devices show that the device is in fact a
> >>'TPPS/2 IBM Trackpoint' Googlings for the Trackpoint show a
> >>confusing picture which I don't understand.
[...]
> >There should be more info in the Xorg log. If you can switch to a
> >terminal after a failed KDM startup, you can run
> >
> >egrep '^\((EE|WW)\)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log
> >
> >to get a list of all errors and warnings. Post this output here and we
> >(hopefully) will know what is wrong.
> >
>
> The output of the above command is:-
[ snip: font directory warnings ]
> (EE) No devices detected.
>
> I had already looked at the xorg.log file, but I was looking only for
> errors and not warnings.
The font directory warnings should be harmless. The fact that there is
no other warning or error message before it fails with "No devices
detected" suggests to me that you have some very basic misconfiguration
or driver problem.
What is your graphics card? Please find the relevant lines in the output
of "lspci" and post them here (lines mentioning "VGA", "graphic(s)" or
"display").
We also need more information about your xorg.conf. The output of the
following command should be a good start:
awk '/Section "(Input)?Device"/,/EndSection/' /etc/X11/xorg.conf
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Regards,
Florian
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