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Re: XFree86

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James Youngman)
Wed Nov 13 06:37:08 1996

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From: JYoungman@vggas.com (James Youngman)
Date: 13 Nov 1996 11:35:04 GMT
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In article <56b5tt$iso@halon.vggas.com>, count@nynexst.com says...
>
>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?

Use the -R flag with GPM, and tell xf86config to use /dev/gpmdata and 
MouseSystems protocol.


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