[wellylug] Re: Xorg --> 'No Core Pointer'

[David Murray]

On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Adam Bogacki wrote:

>> Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 22:01:29 +1300
>> From: Chris Hodgetts <chris at archnetnz.com>
>> Subject: Re: [wellylug] Xorg --> 'No Core Pointer' ?
>> To: Wellington Linux Users Group <wellylug at lists.wellylug.org.nz>
>> Message-ID: <1129626089.4120.2.camel at jenna>
>> Content-Type: text/plain
>>
>> Do you have another mouse?
>
> The hardware is OK - the mouse worked on another machine, and it works
> on my unused XP partition.

Um...

If it was an unused "XP" partition (whatever that type of partition is) 
then how could your mouse work if that partion is unused? Surely 
any attempt to boot from an unused partition would simply fail.



> $ cat /dev/input/mice
> $ /dev/input/mice: No such device
> $ cat /dev/input/mouse
> $ /dev/input/mouse: No such file or directory
> $cat /dev/psaux
> $ /dev/psaux: No such device
>
> .. does this imply that device /dev/input/mouse exists ?

No.

It implies that none (not one) of those devices exists.


>> if you get a device does not exists or something, then reboot, and see
>> if you get any errors upon a reboot.
>
> None of the reboot error messages relate to this problem.

Why are there *any* error messages when booting?

Should have no error messages.

Have you tampered recently with the BIOS settings?

Regards,


David Murray