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Michael Shaw wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> I’m new to Gentoo (and relatively new to Linux in general). I’m |
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> running it in VMWare as I evaluate systems to ultimately replace |
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> Windows. I really like the speed of Gentoo and think the portage |
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> system is excellent. |
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> Yesterday I emerged gnome-light and am able to startx as root, but not |
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> as a normal user. This seems like a permissions problem to me. |
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> However, I have not found anything on Google to point me in the write |
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> direction. |
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> Please find attached my X11 start up log from my regular user account. |
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> Hopefully someone can help. |
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> (**) Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" |
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> (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/mouse |
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> No such file or directory. |
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> (EE) Mouse0: cannot open input device |
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> (EE) PreInit failed for input device "Mouse0" |
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Here is the problem. This path should probably be /dev/input/mice |
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-Richard |
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