Re: [PLUG] Debian install

[Bill Patterson <patterson@computer.org>]

Continuing, I could not find anything in /var/log/XFree86, so I reran--this time
including all packages (including Chinese) and making one big partition with no
swapfiles--and got the same problem.  But it was willing to try again, and on the
second try it did install the X-Server.  However, now it won't recognize the mouse!

I played a lot of games with it, offering it a chance at each of the (was it 16?)
mouse protocols supported by Debian, and MY mouse, which likes Red Hat, Windoze, and
even Corel Linux, would not talk!

I finally told it to use the MicroSoft protocol and finished the install.  Now the X
screen won't come up on 'startx' because it says "Fatal server error: cannot open
mouse."  Oh well!  Any thoughts on how to corral a free-range mouse?

Bill

Mike Leone wrote:

> Bill Patterson (patterson@computer.org) had this to say on 12/30/02 at 22:21:
> > I've been listening to all the good things about Debian so I am now trying to
> > install it.  For some reason I am hung up:
> >
> > _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: error111
>
> X isn't running. Probably not starting. Look in /var/log/XFree86 ...
> something.log.
>
> > keeps repeating in batches over and over again.  Does this look like something
> > simple to anyone?
> >
> > I am attempting an install of Debian Linux 2.2 r 7 from .iso files burned onto
> > CDROM.
>
> The latest Debian is 3.0, BTW, not 2.2.
>
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