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[Robin <robin AT kallisti.net.nz>]

Hey, I finally rebooted into my new configuration (which was a bad idea, 
being as it was not long before I was leaving town for the weekend), 
spent a couple of hours battling with LILO, finally got that fixed (it 
wouldn't work with /dev/hdx references, and the Mandrake rescue CD 
doesn't have devfs (or I was doing it wrong) so I couldn't mount that to 
make it work. Eventually fixed it by booting from my old Mandrake HDD 
and fixing LILO from there)

anyway, the current problem is that I can't start KDM, it says:
Sep  8 10:53:58 kallisti kdm[1994]: IO Error in XOpenDisplay
Sep  8 10:53:58 kallisti kdm[1964]: Display :0 cannot be opened
...and after a few attempts, drops me back to the console. Hmm, I think 
I may have cottoned on to this while writing this email...I'll finish it 
for the benefit of others :)

My old mouse device was at /dev/mouse, the new one is /dev/misc/psaux. 
(changing what the xserver thinks about this now...) changing that 
appeared to fix it. I'm wondering if perhaps there should be a central 
place for things like mouse info so that devfs can put the appropriate 
links in, and gpm and X don't fall over?

Hmm it also says that the sound device perms are wrong. Though I think I 
saw a list message about that a while ago...

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