Problems installing rawhide and reporting thereof

[Deji Akingunola]

On 10/26/05, Chris Lumens <clumens at redhat.com> wrote:

> > 1. X failed to start (all three attempts) with the following error in
> > the various X.log files:
> >
> > [snip]
> > Synaptics no synaptics event device found (checked 10 nodes)
> > Synaptics The /dev/input/event* device nodes seem to be missing
> > Query no Synaptics: 6003C8
> > (EE) Synaptics no synaptics touchpad detected and no repeater device
> > (EE) Synaptics Unable to query/initialize Synaptics hardware.
> > (EE) PreInit failed for input device "Synaptics"
> > No core pointer
> >
> > Fatal server error:
> > failed to initialize core devices
> > [snip]
> >
> > I tried plugging in a usb mouse, but the same error still happened.
>
> I fixed this on 10/14 and we did a build later that day, so it should be
> fine.  On a test machine here, I see /dev/input/event{0-3} being
> created.  After X fails, can you switch over to tty2 and check that
> those exist?
>

 I still experienced the same error using a 10/25 tree.

Deji