On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 08:59:38AM -0700, Peter Easthope wrote: > Andrei, Florian, > > Thanks for the assistance. > I installed Lenny beginning with debootstrap. > Then copied some configurations from Etch. > Then used dselect. > > Andrei> What xorg packages do you have installed? (dpkg -l xorg*)
Oops, should have been dpkg -l *xorg*, but it seems the problem is elsewhere. > Florian> I would also like to know the result of > dmesg | grep input > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/$ dmesg | grep input > input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0 > input: C-Media USB Headphone Set as /class/input/input1 > input: USB HID v1.00 Device [C-Media USB Headphone Set ] on > usb-0000:00:04.2-2 > drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver > > No mouse there but in Etch, the output of the > same command includes the mouse. > > input: PS2++ Logitech Wheel Mouse as /class/input/input3 > > f> ... and the output of > ls -l /dev/input/by-id > > crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 63 Aug 20 14:38 /dev/input/mice > > f> ... "modprobe psmouse" ... > > FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.18-4-686/modules.dep: No such file > or directory > > So I failed to install a modules package? No, the modules are contained in the kernel package. AFAIK this is the file that handles the module dependencies. Did you ever restart this machine? I mean after installing with debootstrap. If yes then try a 'dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-2.6.18-4-686' and then reboot (BTW you should upgrade to 2.6.18-5-686). > debootstrap is the most direct way of installing the > system, yet the documentation is relegated to an > appendix of the installation manual. Also, that > documentation is rather sparse and needs some elaboration. > After all, a pointing device is essential to a > GUI and most users want a GUI. Hhmm, I always thought of debootstrap to be the most "hackish" way of installing Debian. The new installer is really great. Regards, Andrei P.S. Could you please not start a new thread each time you answer. Just use reply (and make sure it goes only to debian-user@ ...) -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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