Re: Debian woes

["Barry J. Dmytro" <dmytro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Steven Isaacson [02/09/02 23:38 -0500]:
> * Adam Shirey (aeshirey@xxxxxxx) wrote:
> > First and foremost, when I startx, it brings up KDE. That's fine, but I'm a
> > GNOME man. (It should be noted here that when it started KDE, it brought up
> > the KDE gears and shortly thereafter died.) So I ran gdm (which, of course,
> > only root wants to do, so I ran as root). It started up the gdm fine, but I
> > had no mouse and no keyboard. I couldn't enter my username, couldn't go
> > through the menus, switch to a different console, or even CTRL-ALT-DEL out.
> > (I hope I don't have to fsck when I go back; I'm in Windows right now).
> 
> This should be controled through your .xinitrc. Though I have never used
> GNOME or KDE so I am not sure of the exact process to get them started.
> I would think installing GDM and uninstalling KDM would fix the problem.
Well, I don't remember quite which version it was but at one point in time
the .xinitrc file support was broken in debian and I had to write my own
startx script.  Pretty easy thing to do.

if [-e "$HOME/.xinitrv];
{
   exec "$HOME/.xinitrc";
}
els
{
   exec "$EXEC_PATH/gnome-session";
}


> 
> > 
> > If I can get that solved, the only other problem is that my mouse didn't
> > work when I started getting into KDE (before it quit). It's USB, but I
> > didn't get the option to select it as such. I then did something to the
> > effect of "apt-update", then in dselect, found four different USB options,
> > three of which (IIRC) were for developers. I chose the other, it downloaded
> > and installed it, but, of course, I couldn't get into GNOME.
> 
> Check out your /etc/X11/XF86Config it should have a few lines like the
> following:
> Identifier "USBMouse"
> Driver "mouse"
> Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
> Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
> 
> Then you need to make sure that you have USB support built into the
> kernel. I would think that the stock debian kernel might not have USB
> support but I could be wrong. Make sure you have "CONFIG_USB_HID"
> "CONFIG_USB" "CONFIG_USB_UHCI" and "CONFIG_USB_UHCI_ALT" selected.
> 
> Sorry for the long time before the reply I was gone for the weekend,
> -steve
> --
> Steven Isaacson <spisaacs@xxxxxxx> AIM/Yahoo/MSN:spi516
> "and we slip and we slide two drowning souls collide..." - De/Vision

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