RE: Locked up X-windows

2001-03-16 Thread Mathieu, Barry
ing "enter" will boot the image default of the disk (?). If this doesn't work, try a repost to the list with the subject being something like, proper response at the rescue boot disk prompt. Barry -Original Message- From: L R Dirienzo Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Frida

Re: Locked up X-windows

2001-03-16 Thread Barry Mathieu
I had a similar problem when I recently installed Debian for my first time. The source of the problem in my case was the XF86Config file pointing to /dev/mouse and there being no such file. During the install I believe there is a section where you can chose the mouse protocol as PS/2. The device s

Re: Locked up X-windows

2001-03-16 Thread Albrecht Frank
L R Dirienzo Jr wrote: > > Hello all. > > I locked up X-Windows. I had run Red Hat 6.0 on a PC for about a year, and > the install was no problem. I decided to go to debian and the install was > fine, but X-Windows would not run, and it failed because the /dev/mouse file > did not exist. I jus

Re: Locked up X-windows

2001-03-16 Thread David Wright
Quoting L R Dirienzo Jr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I locked up X-Windows. I had run Red Hat 6.0 on a PC for about a year, and > the install was no problem. I decided to go to debian and the install was > fine, but X-Windows would not run, and it failed because the /dev/mouse file > did not exist. I

sugestion (was Re: Locked up X-windows)

2001-03-16 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi, this is only a sugestion, but may help a lot to newbies installing Debian. When installing Debian and you reach the point of configuring X-Windows, the program anXious ansk you about to install xdm. The on-line comments tells you about the benefits of having xdm installed. But what it doesn