On 9 January 2011 08:40, tom butz <thomas.butz@clear.net.nz> wrote:
'Helt enkelt' as they say in Sweden - piece of cake to get it installed and running. My system is an SiS-one, so compiling was a bit more dedicated.
startx brought up a screen straight away, though I need to spend a bit more time ti find out why neither keyboard nor mouse worked in any of the 3 subscreens. Couldn't even use Ctrl+Alt+Backspace.
It might be helpful. From the arch of the list: did you try this in xorg.conf? : 1) Section "ServerFlags" Option "AllowEmptyInput" "false" EndSection 2) For some reason on my system (maybe because of an older kernel?) I have /dev/event* devices. the 10-evdev.conf file in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/ expects the input devices to be in /dev/input/event* (which they are not on my system). I'm tempoarily fixed the problem b y manually editing this file. Cheers, Wawrzek -- Wawrzyniec Niewodniczański vel Wawrzek Larry or LarryN Linux User #177124 E-MAIL: wawrzek@gmail.com PhD in Quantum Chemistry WWW: http://wawrzek.name MSc in Molecular Engineering JID: wawrzek@jabber.wroc.pl