Re: Xwindows crashes on startup from mouse configuration

[Anthony Neville <anthony neville paradise net nz>]

Ari Nepon wrote:

[...]
> So, I looked in my XF86Config file, and it has the mouse listed as IMPS/2.
> SO i looked in the XF86Config-4 file, and it doesn't have anything about the
> mouse listed, but did have something about Keyboard0 and coreKeyboard. Is
> this where something is wrong?

In my XF886Config-4 file, just before the line you've mentioned, there's also: 
InputDevice "Mouse0"  "CorePointer"

Anyway, login to a console as the root user, run mouseconfig and select your
mouse type.  Mouseconfig will then make the necessary changes to the
XFree86 config files.

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