On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 02:37:34PM -0800, Mark Healey wrote: > On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 14:58:01 -0600, Kent West wrote: > > >On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 12:19:36AM -0800, Mark Healey wrote: > >> Now that I have the networking fixed and sort of figured out the mouse > >> problem I'm ready to tackle X not starting. > > > > > >Perhaps I missed it, but I never saw what your fix was. Don't leave us > >hanging . . . . > > > >(By posting the solution you might also be helping somoe future aarchive > >searcher.) > > For the networking I installed the appropriate kernel headers and > created a symbolic link "linux" to them in the /usr/src since I > couldn't figure out how to merge them with the actual source tree. I > then just compiled and installed the nic drivers. > > The mouse problem is related to my KVM switch. I bypassed it and gdm > worked fine. It is worrying that this is a problem since Windows, > Redhat 9 and knoppix have no problem with it. Somewhere in the chain > between the physical mouse port /dev/psaux some piece of software is > deciding that there is no mouse attached. I did post this one. > > I don't know if you are part of the debian team or not but I'm going > to make a suggestion to you anyway. > > It would be nice to have some kind of archive where people, once a > problem is resolved could post a writeup of their solution. They > could pare out the failed attempts and irrelevant comments. I'm > already doing it on paper for my own problems. > > What would be really neat would to create a sort of evolving > electronic bubble chart type program. For example: > > Problem: no mouse action. > > "Do you have a KVM switch? [y/n]" > > A "y" would take the user to > > "Bypass the KVM switch and reboot" > "Do you now have mouse action? [y/n]" > > A "y" would take you to a congratulations page. > A "n" would take you to a software diagnostics branch. > > A "n" would take you to a software diagnostics branch. > > Of course a real life one would much more elaborate than this.
There is a wiki, which could perhaps serve this function... Presumably someone knows where it is? I seem to remember it is mentioned in the regular newbie post on this list. -- hendrik > > > > > ----------------------------------------- > Please leave this. It is a filter term. > ferulebezel > ----------------------------------------- > Mark Healey > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Don't bothor CCing or emailing this address. Since spammers seem to be harvesting > this > list anything that doesn't come from the list server is assumed to be spam and > deleted. > ASUS A87V8X mobo w AMD Athalon > Broadcom 4401 onboard nic > with static IP Address > ATI All-In-Wonder 9700 Video card. > Sampo Alphascan 17mx monitor > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
