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Re: XFree86

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (RHS Linux User)
Tue Nov 12 20:00:03 1996

Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 00:56:16 +0000 (WET)
From: RHS Linux User <pancho@galaxy.ce.uevora.pt>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <Chameleon.847845599.count@alexpc.nynexst.com>
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try to set the mouse device in /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config
and select option 1 in the mouse protocols... than type device /dev/mouse
enable chord middle, do not emulate the 3 buttoms and emulate these
bindings for the Alt keys ... then it might work.

hope this helps

miguel


On Tue, 12 Nov 1996 count@nynexst.com wrote:

> I just installed RedHat 4.0.  I can't get XFree86 to work.  When I type startx, it 
> finds everything, then fails, with the following message.
> 
> Fatal server error:
> Cannot open mouse (Device or resource busy)
> 
> Xinit: unexpected signal 13
> 
> I ran xf86config and told it I had a PS/2 mouse.
> 
> Can anybody help me?
> 
> Alex de Frondeville
> NYNEX Science & Technology
> 
> 
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