Hullo, list. Can anyone help? After running xf86config in Debian, typing startx gives "Cannot open mouse (No such file or directory)". On looking, I see /dev/mouse hasn't been created. Can I just create my own (and how? using a text editor ok?), indicating a softlink to /dev/ttyS*? How do i know which /ttyS* it is using? (Typing "cat" for /dev files usually leaves me with a hanging situation, no doubt I am trying to read them the wrong way as they are actually being created on the hoof.) Many thanks. Jen
PS. Has someone booked a room for Alug for the linux installfest? Do we need to get posters up, advertise on the web, etc? Get lists of members who can attend and what equipment they can bring? (Sorry if someone is on the case and I've missed it, I feel a Virgo surge coming on..)
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 03:39:33PM +0100, Jenny_Hopkins@toby-churchill.com wrote:
After running xf86config in Debian, typing startx gives "Cannot open mouse (No such file or directory)". On looking, I see /dev/mouse hasn't been created. Can I just create my own (and how? using a text editor ok?),
ln -s /dev/ttySx /dev/mouse, where x is the right number.
indicating a softlink to /dev/ttyS*? How do i know which /ttyS* it is using?
Well, where is the mouse plugged in? In DOS speak ttyS0 is COM1, ttyS1 is COM2 etc.
Toby Jaffey wrote:
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 03:39:33PM +0100, Jenny_Hopkins@toby-churchill.com wrote:
After running xf86config in Debian, typing startx gives "Cannot open mouse (No such file or directory)". On looking, I see /dev/mouse hasn't been created. Can I just create my own (and how? using a text editor ok?),
ln -s /dev/ttySx /dev/mouse, where x is the right number.
just for completeness, if the mouse is a PS/2, the the device is called /dev/psaux
Sz
indicating a softlink to /dev/ttyS*? How do i know which /ttyS* it is using?
Well, where is the mouse plugged in? In DOS speak ttyS0 is COM1, ttyS1 is COM2 etc.
I don't know if ther is alreay one but wouldn't a FAQ be handy for all these type questions.
If there isn't what would it take to start one.
Thanks
D
--- Neill Newman neill@entora.co.uk wrote:
Toby Jaffey wrote:
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 03:39:33PM +0100,
Jenny_Hopkins@toby-churchill.com wrote:
After running xf86config in Debian, typing startx gives "Cannot
open mouse
(No such file or directory)". On looking, I see /dev/mouse hasn't
been
created. Can I just create my own (and how? using a text editor
ok?),
ln -s /dev/ttySx /dev/mouse, where x is the right number.
just for completeness, if the mouse is a PS/2, the the device is called /dev/psaux
Sz
indicating a softlink to /dev/ttyS*? How do i know which /ttyS*
it is
using?
Well, where is the mouse plugged in? In DOS speak ttyS0 is COM1,
ttyS1
is COM2 etc.
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On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, David Freeman wrote:
I don't know if ther is alreay one but wouldn't a FAQ be handy for all these type questions.
To many questions, to many possible answers, and a whole internet out there to look at......
If there isn't what would it take to start one.
Dedication ;-)
Adam
--- Adam Bower abower@zeus.com wrote:
On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, David Freeman wrote:
I don't know if ther is alreay one but wouldn't a FAQ be handy for
all
these type questions.
To many questions, to many possible answers, and a whole internet out there to look at......
Well at least something on our website which says well these sites are useful, for problem <xxx> try the howtos etc...
If there isn't what would it take to start one.
Dedication ;-)
Insanity?
If it hasn't been done by end of june, I'll have a go, ATM i have college.
Thanks
D
Adam
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Adam Bower wrote:
If there isn't what would it take to start one.
Dedication ;-)
sounds like record breakers ;)..
Sz
Adam
David Freeman wrote:
I don't know if ther is alreay one but wouldn't a FAQ be handy for all these type questions.
If there isn't what would it take to start one.
to be honest, most of this info is in the HOW-TO's, and before anybody starts, I am not saying that people should rtfm, although that is always a good starting point ;)
To be honest I think that people's time would be better spent on other things, another FAQ might not be the most efficient way of using people's time... Teaching people how to find where the current FAQ's are, and how to find this information for themselves would be a better way to go imho....
Sz
Thanks
D
--- Jenny_Hopkins@toby-churchill.com wrote:
PS. Has someone booked a room for Alug for the linux installfest? Do we need to get posters up, advertise on the web, etc? Get lists of members who can attend and what equipment they can bring? (Sorry if someone is on the case and I've missed it, I feel a Virgo surge coming on..)
Thanks Jenny for bringing this up again.
Sorry for shouting, but we need to sort something out here about what we are doing.
I believe(may be wrong) MJ Ray was booking the room. has this been done?
We need to decide what we are doing in the way of installations. Which Distro? Debian sounds like the one people have the most exp with. Do we have a suitable disclaimer written yet?
Does someone want to coordinate who's bringing and doing what? And also a list of whats needed?
Sorry if this sounds blunt and unfriendly but we need to do something and do it well.
Thanks
D
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