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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 11:08:06AM +1200, Robin wrote:
> 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...
> 
> -- 
> Robin <robin AT kallisti.net.nz>                 JabberID: <eythian AT jabber.org>
> 
> Hostes alienigeni me abduxerunt. Qui annus est?
> 
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I added a page to the wiki recently:
http://wiki.sourcemage.org/index.php?page=HOWTO-devfsd+setup

This should resolve your sound issues, if it doesn't just write to the
list or ask me on irc, i've become quite good with devfsd setup :)

The devfsd should probably install a better default config to make it
easier to switch, but designing such a default config isn't really easy,
many things depend on the actual  hardware setup.

-- 
Arwed v. Merkatz
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