Re: [gentoo-user] Can't run `X -configure' successfully.

[maxim wexler]

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> >> Jason's recent inquiry about the alternate
> terminals
> >> caused me to
> >> revisit an issue that I've had for some time.
> >> AFAIK, I don't have an
> >> xorg.conf.  I've tried running `X -configure
> >
> > Don't know if it amounts to the same thing but
> have
> > you tried running xorgconfig? When it completes it
> > should write the xorg.conf file.
> >
> >
> >
> Well, it's obviously not the same thing.

Ouch. Not obvious to me; that's why I mentioned it.

> `xorgconfig' seems to run
> fine.  However, it doesn't create a workable
> xorg.conf.  The problem
> that I get is that it can't "initialize the core
> devices".  Basically,
> it can't find my mouse.  When I ran `xorgconfig', I
> used the default
> for the location:  /dev/mouse.  It's obviously not
> hanging off of that
> /dev device.

How about /dev/psaux? That's what I'm using for a USB
Logitech optical type.



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